20 SCIENCE OF HORTICULTURE. 
which we know that pleasant place at Chis- ~ 
wick, to which all the world goes annually, 
to be wetted to the skin !” 
““ Undoubtedly ; for, in propriety, they 
are not the Horticultural Gardens, but the 
Gardens of the Horticultural Society.” 
‘¢ Horticulture means ‘ gardening,’ does it 
not, Mamma? So that it isdroll to talk of 
gardening gardens !” 
“ Yes, my love; horticulture means ‘ gar- 
dening, or the cultivation of gardens; as 
agriculture, in its turn, means the culture 
or cultivation of fields.” 
‘‘ Is there not a foolish word at present In 
fashion,” inquired Miss Aston; ‘* I mean, 
the word agriculturist, to signify, sometimes 
a farmer, and sometimes a farming-man ?” 
‘““Yes, my love,” answered Mr. Dartmouth; 
‘¢ and there was a time,” he added, ‘* when 
we called farming husbandry, a farmer a hus- 
bandman, and his labourer a labourer only, 
or a labourer in husbandry. But we threaten 
to change all this. We are to call our ma- 
nufacturing work-people operatives, and our 
farming-labourers, agriculturists. The latter 
denomination is particularly absurd, because 
