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1898–1983 United States
Cynthia Westcott (June 29, 1898 – March 22, 1983) was an American plant pathologist, rose expert, journalist, and author of seven books. She was elected in 1938 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was named in 1982 to the Garden Communicators International Hall of Fame.
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Dogs sometimes disturb roses by burying their bones too near the roots, but in general rose thorns provide adequate self-protection.
Thrips are tiny insects with rasping-sucking mouthparts, gradual metamorphosis. They feed by macerating surface layers of plant cells and sucking up the juices. They belong to the order Thysanoptera ...
Garden Enemies (1953)
Our new headquarters were at the laboratory at Lyngby, outside of Copenhagen, right next to King Christian's summer palace. He was always going out alone on horseback by our building and I always just missed seeing him.
Raspberry Horntail, Hartigia cressoni (Kirby). One of the stem sawflies, a western species, injuring young shoots of blackberry, loganberry, raspberry, and rose. Bright yellow-and-black females appear in April and May to insert eggs with a curved point under epidermis of tender tips of host plants.
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