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doubtedly belongs to this group. As to Wine-pressing there may be a doubt, for the reason that in practice it is all one science with Viticulture. This, though a special science (or rather, a different science in each district, and often multiple even in one district,—witness the great difference between the knowledge requisite for Claset and for Santerne), yet involves so much that is common to Agriculture that it might seem as improper to separate it from that science as it would be to separate Market-Gardening. Now Agriculture cannot with propriety be treated as a science ministrant to the Gust-instinct, because, even if nothing but articles of food were grown on a farm,* the inquiry is not conducted with any particular concern about the gratification of the palate. If this is considered at all, it is a very minor consideration. The farmer knows less about gastronomy than most men, the agricultural colleges have no professor of this science, and one may search the

*The temptation to put Botanergy [in] the group of practical sciences concerned with plants and the food-sciences is strengthened by the consideration that the very word botany comes from βόσμω, to feed. The root (βο) is doubtful.