Aboriculture

The science of arboriculture studies how these plants grow their environment.Arboriculture includes planting, training, fertilization, pest and pathogen control, pruning, shaping, and removal.

A person who studies arboriculture can be termed an arborist or an arboriculturist. A tree surgeon is more someone who is trained in the maintenance of trees and is more a part of the arboriculture process rather than an arborist. Aboriculture is one of the four types of horticulture.