Cynthia Westcott
Plant pathologist, author, and expert on roses · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1898 to 1983 · aged 84
Cynthia Westcott was an American plant pathologist, author, and expert on roses. She published a number of books and handbooks on horticulture and plant disease. Westcott was nicknamed "The Plant Doctor", and is credited with starting the "first ornamental disease diagnosis business" in the United States.
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Her work was featured in The New York Times, House and Garden, and The American Home. She identified the cause of the plant disease Ovulinia azaleae and a novel treatment for it.
