- horticulture (n.)
- 1670s, "cultivation of a garden," coined from Latin hortus "garden" (see yard (n.1)), probably on model of agriculture. Famously punned upon by Dorothy Parker.
- horticultural (adj.)
- "pertaining to the culture of gardens," 1768, from horticulture + -al (1).
- horticulturist (n.)
- "gardener on a large scale," 1818, from horticulture + -ist. Earlier was horticultist (1754).
- inoculation (n.)
- mid-15c. in horticulture, "act or practice of grafting buds;" 1714 in pathology, "insertion of a form of a virus in order to prevent a more serious attack of it," from Latin inoculationem (nominative inoculatio) "an engrafting, budding," noun of action from past participle stem of inoculare (see inoculate).
