Is it not more than royal wealth to have sun and frost, Gulf-stream and south-westers, laws of geology, phytology, physiology, and other ologies-in a word, the whole universe and the powers thereof, day and night, paving, planting, roofing, lighting, colouring my winter-garden for me, without my even having the trouble to rub a magic ring and tell the genii to go to work?
"Prose Idylls"
Charles Kingsley
The science of plants would have been called phytology, from the Greek phyton, a plant.
"Lectures on The Science of Language"
Max Müller