There you go again, Iris, trying to be the group's mother and trying to make
everything nice and harmonious.

So you are including agricultural, horticulture, natural history and
chemistry in botany too? Not exactly the same thing are they?

Would you consider "library science" a science too? Do librarians ever use
the scientific method?


"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
...
It's true botany is botany, but I think one can use the term botanical
sciences
to refer to the group of related studies, such as taxonomy, botanical
biochemistry, ethnobotany, agronomy, plant nutrition, etc. as well as
botany
itself.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)