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rosette in Utah is from the effects of 
these saline waters. Sometimes it is found 
on the bench lands where there is seep- 
age from the mountains. I found a few 
rosetted trees with galled roots, gopher 
and aphis injuries where there seemed 
to be no rise and fall of the water table 
and no seepage from the mountains, but 
py far the larger part of damage was 
evidently caused from water. 
Nevada 
I did not visit Nevada, but from in- 
formation that is undoubtedly reliable, 
the conditions are similar to those of 
Utah. There the agricultural and hor- 
ticultural regions are surrounded by 
mountains that drain into lake basins like 
Pyramid Lake, Carson Lake and Walker 
Lake, that have no outlets and the water 
rises and falls with similar results to 
those of Utah. 
Grand Junction, Colorado 
At Grand Junction rosette is common 
and the worst rosetted trees are on the 
low lands where the water is heavily 
charged with alkali. Their problem of 
drainage will become serious with the 
irrigation of their higher lands. 
Crossing the Great Divide at Tennessee 
Pass, I came into the Arkansas valley. 
In this valley the great orchard sections 
are near Canyon City. Here we found 
the same causes and the same _ ef- 
fects as on the west side and were re- 
minded again of the “Unity and Univer- 
sality of Law,” and that everywhere sim- 
ilar causes produce similar effects. 
I have found rosette on high lands and 
low lands; on soggy soil and dry soil; on 
shallow soil and deep soil; on gravelly 
soil and the finer volcanic ash; at Brem- 
erton, on Puget Sound, and in Texas, near 
the Gulf; in Washington, Oregon, Cali- 
fornia, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, 
and Oklahoma. I have authority for say- 
ing that it is found in West Virginia, the 
Carolinas, and in Europe. Of course in 
the humid regions it grows under differ- 
ent conditions and is not so prevalent. 
Some of the conditions that produce it 
are not present in the soils of the humid 
regions, but some of them are, and the 
reason it has not been largely observed 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
is because we have not trained ourselves 
to observe it. In fact, it existed in the 
orchards of the Pacific coast states years 
ago, but it has only been noted within 
the last two or three years. 
Rossette Anywhere 
Anywhere rosette might exist under the 
following conditions, viz.: 
1, Where there is good soil and plenty 
of plant food, but where the organs for 
the assimilation of food are injured. 
2. Where there is too much water and 
the oxygen is excluded from the roots. 
3. Where there is not enough water, 
and plant food is not available. 
4. Where there is too much alkali, and 
the root hairs are destroyed. 
5. Where there is hard pan and as a 
consequence the roots are malformed, so 
that there is not a proper circulation, nor 
sufficient plant food available. 
§. Where the roots are injured by clean 
cultivation. 
7. Where gophers or other rodents in- 
jure the roots. 
8. Where aphids, eel worms or other 
insects injure the roots. 
9. Where the trees are set in a scab 
soil that contains but little plant food. 
10. Where land is puddled by irrigation, 
excluding the air and smothering the 
root hairs. 
11. Where the water contains mineral 
elements that destroy the root hairs. 
There are other conditions under which 
it might exist, but to sum it all up, the 
roots are the feeding organs and in pro- 
portion as these organs are injured, in 
that proportion the supply of food is cut 
off, and injury must result that would 
become manifest in the top. 
I conclude, therefore, that the claims of 
those who seem to be in conflict as to the 
causes, are all of them right; for I think 
I have verified most of them. That is, 
they are right in what they affirm, and 
are in danger of being wrong in what 
they deny. 
The Cure of Rosette 
The cure of rosette is not the same in 
every case. 
While it is true that we must strive to 
