Слово "horticulture". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

They suggested we reshape anatomy, microbiology and neuro-pathology to fit in with the doctrines of an ignorant agronomist and an expert in horticulture. [Footnote: By 'ignorant agronomist' he means Trofim Lysenko, the scientist who dominated Soviet biology until the fall of Khrushchev in 1964 and destroyed many of his opponents by denouncing them to the security police. The 'horticulturist' is Ivan Michurin, a specialist in growing new varieties of fruit trees whose name was misused by Lysenko. (Translators' note)].

To be fair, he was attached to his employers, humoured their fancies in horticulture (so far as no actual hard work was involved) but vegetables he knew to be the real stuff of life; a nice Savoy, or a bit of curly kale; flowers were fancy stuff such as ladies liked to go in for, having nothing better to do with their time.

‘He busies himself then, with the horticulture?’

Horticulture seemed, however, to have been abandoned in the deserted kitchen-garden; and where cabbages, carrots, radishes, pease, and melons had once flourished, a scanty crop of lucerne alone bore evidence of its being deemed worthy of cultivation.