Cynthia Westcott

Cynthia Westcott (June 29, 1898 – March 22, 1983) was an American Plant pathology 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. Quotes       Raspberry Horntail, Hartigia cressoni (William Kirby (entomologist) Kirby). One of the Cephoidea 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. 235 The Gardener's Bug Book 3rd Doubleday 1964 https://books.google.com/books?id=NCslAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=hartigia (625 pages; 1st edition 1946; 2nd edition 1952) Dogs sometimes disturb roses by burying their bones too near the roots, but in general rose thorns provide adequate self-protection. Anyone Can Grow Roses: The Plant Doctor's Rose Book 2nd Van Nostrand 1954 https://books.google.com/books?id=RsI_AAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=self-protection 124 (159 pages; 1st edition 1952) Our new headquarters were at the laboratory at Kongens Lyngby Lyngby, outside of Copenhagen, right next to Christian X King Christian's Sorgenfri Palace summer palace. He was always going out alone on horseback by our building and I always just missed seeing him. Plant Doctoring is Fun Van Nostrand 1957 https://books.google.com/books?id=FTBOAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=lyngby 36 (280 pages) Garden Enemies (1953) Hand pick the snails where you can and use slug bait. A barrier of lime on the soil around trees will keep snails away.                  smutsSmut (fungus) Smuts are named for their sooty black spore mass. They are important on grains and grasses, not too common on Ornamental plants ornamentals. Corn and onion smuts appear in backyard gardens. Garden Enemies New York Van Nostrand 1953 144 (261 pages; 1st part of quote; last part of quote) 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 ... p. 149 Quotes about Cynthia Westcott In 1933, Dr. Westcott bought a garden in Glen Ridge, New Jersey Glen Ridge, N.J., as a laboratory. She described it as "equipped with all the common plant diseases." Home studies and experiments with plant problems led to a career as a plant doctor, and for many years, she tended gardens in the New York area.The first of her seven books,The Plant Doctor, published in 1937, was based on her experiences. She wrote on rose growing, plant diseases and pests.The Gardener's Bug Book appeared in 1946 and is undergoing its fifth revision. Dr. Westcott was a contributor to many publications. During World War II, she lectured on pest control for victory gardens. Dr. Westcott was known for her annual Rose Day Open Houses for hundreds of visitors at her gardens in Glen Ridge and, later, at her retirement home in Springvale in Croton-on-Hudson. Joan Lee Faust, Dr. Cynthia Westcott: Rose Expert and Pathologist The New York Times March 24, 1983 p. 10, Section B https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/24/obituaries/dr-cynthia-westcott-dead-rose-expert-and-pathologist.html External links Category:1898 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Botanists from the United States Category:Businesswomen from the United States Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Cornell University faculty Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Scientists from Massachusetts Category:Science authors from the United States Category:Wellesley College alumni Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States