Weed science

Weed science is the discipline concerned with plants that may be considered weeds, their effects on human activities, and their management 'a branch of applied ecology that attempts to modify the environment against natural evolutionary trends.' It is needless to go about to compute the value of the damage weeds do, since all experienced husbandmen know it to be very great, and would unanimously agree to extirpate their whole race as entirely as in England they have done the wolves, though much more innocent and less rapacious than weeds. Weed science is the discipline concerned with plants that may be considered weeds, their effects on human activities, and their management 'a branch of applied ecology that attempts to modify the environment against natural evolutionary trends.'