Noah Webster
Cultivation
CULTIVATION, noun
1. The art or practice of tilling and preparing for crops; husbandry; the management of land. Land is often made better by cultivation Ten acres under good cultivation will produce more than twenty when badly tilled.
2. Study, care and practice directed to improvement, correction, enlargement or increase; the application of the means of improvement; as, men may grow wiser by the cultivation of talents; they may grow better by the cultivation of the mind, of virtue, and of piety.
3. The producing by tillage; as the cultivation of corn or grass.