---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 780.205"
title: "29"
number: "780.205"
heading: "Nursery activities generally."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/780.205"
---

# §780.205. Nursery activities generally.


The employees of a nursery who are engaged in the following activities are employed in “agriculture”:

- (a) Sowing seeds and otherwise propagating fruit, nut, shade, vegetable, and ornamental plants or trees (but not Christmas trees), and shrubs, vines, and flowers;
- (b) Handling such plants from propagating frames to the field;
- (c) Planting, cultivating, watering, spraying, fertilizing, pruning, bracing, and feeding the growing crop.

## Notes

### Amendments

[74 FR 26015, May 29, 2009]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 75 Stat. 65; 29 U.S.C. 201-219. Pub. L. 105-78, 111 Stat. 1467.

### Source

Source: 37 FR 12084, June 17, 1972, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[74 FR 26015, May 29, 2009]