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THE SUJTDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 28, 1907.
OF
1W Injure iSoM Rushes
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Am every TOKiroirn is painfully aware, mildew this season hu been more
than ordinarily prevalent. This, according to Dr. I. Dechmann, Is not the result
.of disease, but the disease Itself. He holds that the main cause of this disease
Is onr unintelligent use of fertilizer.
Though he has all his life been a physician, his specialty has been the study
of chemistry from the great masters. While a resident of Europe, he was per
sonally associated with Soupert, rierre Netting and Peter Lambert, who orig
inated some of the finest roses now seen In Portland gardens. Dr. Dechmann
knows the methods of these treat professional rosarians, and Is competent to
speak on the subject. t
He holds that wllh roses, as with human beings, the only efficacious way to re
sist disease Is to put healthy "blood" Into the veins. . AU this he seta forth
clearly, first In the scientific, then In a popular way. He then gives a formula
for a nutritive salts, which, put Into the earth around the roots of roses, gives
the bush the strength of sap to resist diseases which now blight our best bushes.
It should be added that Ir. Dechmann Is not a theorist alone. At his prlvata
experimental station, at Gresham, Or., he has growing several hundred varieties
of roses which he cultivates with marked success.
BY .DR. L. DECHMANN.
t ewjnmHE rose, by any other name,
I smells just as sweet," Is an
' old saying, and truly the odor
of the rose Is a distinctly .character
istic one; no other fragrant blossoms
exhale a scent, which in any way close
ly resembles the rose. Otto of roses
has been Imitated, but never equaled.
An expert will at once detect the imi
tation. In the gray dawn of the ages we
already find the ' rose the pet flower
of gods and. men alike. A symbol of
beauty crowned as queen of all flow
ers, she towers at the present day In
great i perfection above all her sisters.
In never heretofore dreamed of per
fection in form an color she excels all
other flowers..
No other flower can boast of as
many varieties an the rose.. They are
counted by the thousands. Even If
many varieties resemble each other,
yet we find by close observation in
each Individual kind a difference, eith
er in color or form of blossoms, shape
of stock or bush and in foliage. The
trained eye of the grower, however,
can designate by these peculiarities
the different species.
Not only in the manifold beauty of the
blossoms is the rose the queen of flowers,
but also on account of the long duration
of its flowering time.
Of course much depends upon the cli
mate for the cultivation of perfect and
lasting roses and be it said right here,
that the temperate rone produces the
finest rosea.. Extreme warmth and dry
atmospheres are not to the iiKing 01 me
rose.
Moisture and humidity of the air are
paramount to the cultivation of fine
peclmens of the queen of flowers.
It is not intended to give in this article
a history of the rose; lack of space would
forbid this. But I wish to state that up
to date we recognize 29 original .species of
roses and from these over 6000 different
kinds have been propagated, which num
ber is being yearly augmented.
Let me state here,- that in all of my
travels over the civilized -world have I
ever come across a cllmo which in my es
timation is more perfectly suited to the
cultivation of rich and elegant roses than
"Western Oregon, and .especially Portland,
our fair metropolis. The individual who
named Portland the Rose City should for
all time to come receive the thanks of Its
citizens. No name could have been found
which would, from nature's point of
view, be more appropriate. The name
"Rose City" has no doubt stimulated the
interest of Portland people In rose cul
ture, and In time the planned annual rose
carnl-al will be the means of heralding
Portland all over the continent as the
place where roses bloom In larger num
ber and greater state of perfection than
in any other locality in the civilized
world.
However, to attain this reputation, it
is not only necessary to plant roses but
to be careful in the selection of the va
rieties in the first place.
Like everything else, roses, if not high
ly cultivated stock, will degenerate. All
amateur rosegrowers, of course, cannot
b experts, yet with a little study- of the
wants of the rose they will be enabled to
raise fine roses. Rosegrowers have to be
ever vigilant over their charges. They
are subject to ravages and diseases. If
not properly cared for. A diseased bush
will produce only Imperfect blossoms.
Therefore, all rosegrowers should learn
the essential wants of the rose and when
diseased, its proper treatment. If Port
land rosegrowers are willing to do this,
our rose carnivals will become famous
and our city will receive an amount of
Judicious advertising which could in no
other w-ay be obtained.
I shall try to describe how to produce
a resistant, fragrant, in short, a perfect
rose, worthy the great admiration this
city and state, yes, the whole country, is
giving this queen of flowers.
Scientific Truth.
Before attempting this subject, how
ever, the interested reader must follow
Tiie "into the sanctum of real natural sci
ence. Although I shall have to remove
many wrong and heretofore misapplied
theories, do not lose courage, dear reader,
and do not turn this page until you have
read it. I do not wish to disturb you in
your poetical trance in which you may
have been up to thts time but shall sim
ply remove some of the superstitions
which have prohibited the study of the
human and lower animal body as well
as plant life for many centuries past.
Many hundreds and so-called authorities
among them, have for hundreds of years
speculated in ignorance and superstition
and quite a lucrative business has been
and is being made at this day from such
trained, nursed and cherished stupidity.
It may seem presumptuous for me to op
pose so-called eminent writers, but I must
defend the truth. There is no doubt In
my mind, however, that truth will be
victorious.
Whoso'er with truth Is armed
Ne'er through slander can be harmed.
"Are you seeking truth? Remember the
world clings firmer to superstition than
to faith." Chamisso.
What is the laborious pursuit of a hu
mane, conscientious scientist, but a con
stant "seeking after truth 7" '
Inward contentment and outward suc
cess increases with a clearer conception
of the mysterious processes of the vital
functions and with a deeper knowledge of
the harmonious workings of nature. The
learned and thoughtful scientist of our
century will hardly hope to force and ac
complish with one or the other strange
drug that which only nature can do. To
day, after bacteriological science has for
17 years been chasing Its phantom, many
honored readers have come to the firm
conclusion that ' the microbe is not the
cause of so many diseases, but that the
internal disposition of the organism is to
be recognized as the predominating cause.
It is not difficult for me to pVove this, as
I have only ' to quote one of the first
authorities In bacteriology in order to
convince even the most skeptical: "The
causes of disease in the scientific sense
are always internal and are empirically
designated as disposition. The microbes
are tmly the released Irritants of a spe
cific kind; therefore in a natural scien
tific sense, are not to be described as a
cause." (Extract from a lecture on bac
teriology by Professor Hueppe (Prag), ac
cording to reports in the "Allgemeine
Medlzinische Zentral Zeltung.).
Does the above require any comment?
As to the explanation of the cause, that
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DR. DEC'HM ANN'S EX PEROIENTAX STATION AT GRESHAM.
is the obscure point. Modern science des
ignates it even as a "terra incognita." In
this ignorance of the fundamental cause
lies the explanation of our want of casual
therapy (that of today is one almost pure
ly symptomatic) and a true preventive or
prophylactic, the explanation of the lack
of success of the symptomatic therapy
and the explanation of the enormous con
sumption of patent medicines.
How little, how woefully little have we
in opposition to the mania for bacterio
logical causes of disease, busied ourselves
with the disposition and those things con
nected with it, namely: with. the compre
hension of constitutional variation (or
6lfferences). and with so-called constitu
tional disturbances and their explana
tions. In this field as good as nothing
has been done toward putting together
the A B C of the subject.
As a first -step toward this end. one
should comprehend the following: What
do we call being healthy? Silly question?
But let someone give tbe answer. We
will satisfy ourselves with the para
phrase, "Healthfulness is the normal per
formance of all the natural functions and
the normal mechanical power of all the
parts and organs."
When we then ask: "What is necessary
to the maintenance of. the- complicated
normal life processes, constituting good
health?" experience gives us the answer:
Air, light, water, exercise, rest and prop
er nutrition.
Next In importance comes ques
tion: "Whence comes sickness?" Through
the false quantitative and qualitative
treatment of the dietetic or hygienic fac
tors, due to' our Ignorance. ,
We must, if we follow this line of
thought logically, ask bow does it hap
pen that we do not arrive at this
conclusion; that we do not recognize
the causes of disease as they affect
the disposition, in dietetic error. There
fore, in ourselves, that is in our human
self-sufficiency which always seeks a
scapegoat and never allows us to say
with the prodigal Bon: "Pater, peccavl,"
What are those hygienic factors? Sup
pression or prevention?- That is the ques
tion! What is said herein regarding the
production of perfect blood or sap
applies to all animal or vegetable
creation, but especially to the
rose.
Shoul.d we try to disturb , public or
der or go so far as to commit crime,
we will most undoubtedly be arrested
In short order. We have polloemen
around with the necessary authority
who will make the arrest. Judges who
will impose punishment upon .the crim
inal. ' These instruments of Justice
serve to prevent as well as to suppress
crime. With disease It is different.
The criminal "sickness" plans the
crime which will disturb and under
mine order of the human or plant
body; but this great criminal is not
detected until he has committed the
crime and produced the disease.
Where are the means by which we may
be able to prevent the invisible enemy
from committing crime?
Prevention of Disease.
There is hardly a , human ; being who
does not admit, that under all circum
stances it would be better. for the human
or plant system if we could prevent dis
ease instead of suppressing it after it
has been created by so,me ' circumstance
or other. Experience has' taught us that
prevention Is better than suppression; at
the same time we have found that pre
vention is the more difficult task. "
This fact may explain why physicians
and druggists would rather suppress dis
ease than prevent it. Today the "medical
policemen" (the physicians) are com
pelled to wait until the crime Is commit
ted, the disease produced, and then and
not until then, they try to arrest the
criminal by means of drugs and poisons,
which too often not only handicap the
criminal, but at the same time execute
the victim by sending him ito an early
grave. '
This was our medicine; the patients died.
Who were restored? None cared to ask.
With our Infernal mixture thus, ere long.
These hills and peaceful vales among.
We raged more fiercely than the pest.
Myself the deadly poison did to thousands
give:
They pined away; I yet must live
To hear the reckless murderers blest.
Goethe in Faust.
We have hundreds, and thousands of
books on the suppression of disease, but
not one which treats the subject of pre
vention half way thoroughly or com
pletely. For about 25 years I have in
essays and lectures agitated the cause
Lisa
of prevention. I have in many cases tried
to induce the physicians and scientists of
my acquaintance to make a specialty pf
the prevention of disease to enable the
healthy to keep their health by hy
gienic means. It should be the task of
such specialists to cultivate the most
useful and Ideal specialty of modern sci
ence towit: To study the individual con
stitutions thoroughly, to define a certain
mode of living for each individual which
will place man. beast 6r plant in a posi
tion to gain a maximum of strength,
health and power of reproduction.
It is nothing but overwhelming con
fidence on the part of the patient to
suppose that the stomach is a sort
of post or express office, which will
send remedies only to those parts of
the system which are afflicted. But
how Is It that this medical bigotry has
gained such a strong hold upon the
world?
The why and ' wherefore is easy to
explain. Nowadays people want to see
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everything, but think very little. It is
easy to understand that a drug, which
blackens a silver spoon or destroys
the fiber of 'linen, must have a more
terrible and dangerous effect upon the
fine tissues of our interior organs.
Medical healing suppresses the symp
toms of disease and nothing more.
While hygienic healing considers that,
by putting a plant or a human system
In the proper condition, they will grow
for all they are worth.
Hygienic healing is a science today
and will be the medical science of the
future.
How can we cure disease? Only
by removing .its cause. How can we
remove Its cause? By using the hy
gienic universal medicine named
Pure Blood. ,
The great - physiologist. Prof Mole
schott, said over BO years ago: "It Is
one of the chief questions which hu
manity must always ask of 'the phy
sician, how to obtain good, healthy
and atftlve blood, and we may put the
question as we wish, all who occupy
their minds with it are forced to ac-
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knowledge explicitly, or bashfully and
timidly, that our thinking, our sensi
bility, our power and our children are
dependent on our blood, and our blood
on the nutrition."
Guided by Masters.
In my nutrition therapy I myself
followed faithfully the suggestions I
derived from the words of Privy Coun
cillor Prof. Schnentnger, in Berlin. It
was be who once gave the following
Instructions in his medical colloquies:
"To understand a sickness or -disease
and to undertake thoroughly to cure
the same, it Is first of all necessary to
unfold before one's vision the ways
and means of its formation, and trace
by degree its origin, before one is
enabled to prepare therapeutic meas
ures, conforming with the individual
stages of the disease." '
In this very sense I faithfully tried to
reach the root of the inception of dis
eases, but the whole medical literature
didn't bring me any further than to
pathological anatomy, which Informs us:
That the original cause of the disease
is the change of form of cellular elements
of the different digestive organs, whereby
in the explanation, the customary tech
nical terms are used, as atrophy, degen
eration, metamorphose, etc. But it is
surely not possible that thts could be the
origin.
The visible changing of the 'cells must
be sought in the conditional .interstitial
substances which cause the invisible
changes or shlftings of the cellular forms
and which are scientifically called
"changed nutritional conditions."
And with the aid of physiological chem
Good Stories of Prominent People
Mary's Fishing.
THE other day little Mary, aged
four, was having a most exciting
time fishing from the nursery window.
She had a long string that reached to
the top of a tall rosebush in the gar
den. "Now I have caught a whale!"
laughed she. And up she hauled a
whale that 'weighed several tons at
least, Judging by the tugs and grunts
that Mary gave. This monster was
safely landed on the nursery floor, and
the line again lowered. Next came a
swordfish, which was followed by
other terrible, creatures that caused
Mary a fre3h shout of Joy each time.
Suddenly her mirth was changed to a
horrible groan, and then a cry of glood
curdling fright. .Mother ran to her
and looked out the window to see what
had happened.
Coming up the string possibly to
ee what had become of all the sea
monsters was a pretty little black
and yellow spider. Nearer and nearer
It -was crawling, and closer and closer.
Mary held the string.
"Save me!" she sobbed. "Oh, the
awful thing will eat me up!"
"Let gc!" laughed the mother. Mary
had never once thought of that solu
tion. The right hand relaxed and all
danger was past.
"Dear me!" said Mary later from the
cosy harbor of mother's arm.
"A really, truly spider is a lot worser
than a make-believe alligator why,
mother, why?"
A Good Guessing Game.
EVERT one should be in the secret
but the guesser. A nice rainy day
Is selected, with a number of children
and plenty of bubbling spirits, the
guesser goes out of the room while
the company consults. They arrange
themselves on chairs In a circle, and
decide to think of some person, the
person in this case being the right
hand ifelghbor of each player. The
players are numbered 1. 2, 3 etc., by
means of printed placards hung around
each neck. Then the guesser is sum
moned and takes a stand within the
circle. No. 1 acts as spokesman, and
announces:
"We are all thinking of some per
son." "Male or female?" asks the guesser,
of No. 1.
This is always the first question,
then the guesser goes in regular se
quence round and -round the circle, be
coming more and more puzzled, as can
be seen by this example:
Take No. 1, whose right-hand neigh
bor is No. 2, and No. 2 has for a right-
hand neighbor No. 3. No. 1 is a boy,
No. 2 is a
girl, No. 3 is a boy. You
istry, I was successful in finding the path
to the playgrounds of those mysterious
occurrences of life, to-wit: As the cells,
being the smallest elements of the organ
ism, are also only products of the blood
and for their composition again require
in .alternating quantities the different
chemical interstitial substances, so it waa
necessary to fathom which those chemical
elements of the cellules are, what forms
their mutual relation takes in the sep
arate body-parts and in which way they
enter the organism.
In this way I got a clear insight as to
the greatly mistaken idea of the doings
of the so-called mineral materials in the
organism and It was gradually made clear
to me that everything is dependent upon
the introduction of the proper sanguffying
or nutritive salts to the blood.
It may be argued? that what we eat and
drink Is heterogeneous In which the min
eral irjatter is .""ltually supplemented.
This is the genera! o?'nion, yet not a
fact. Our vegetables, grain, rrt and
milk contain too much phosphoric acid
and sal ammoniac consequent upon arti
ficial and animal manuring, while the
sulphurics are entirely missing. Von Lie
big says about , this: "If the tiniest in
gredient of the minerals is missing in
the soil, the plants must grow sick."
"The ground may be ever so rich in
Ingredients It Is exhaustible."
The analysis of our blood indicates that
to remain well, we must possess again as
much sulphuric as phosphoric salts.
We are taught, it Is true, to eat more
vegetables than meat, that our bread
lacks the nourishing substances, etc., but
which matter hurts or benefits us, we
have never been informed. How is It
then that the science of sanative power
of nature as well as medical science are
still in the dark as to which relation the
separate component parts of. our nour
ishment must absolutely be and exist in
order to obtain normal, healthy san
guification? The cause is right here: The applica
tion of a real chemistry of life was never
until now comprehended. It is the inimor
tal Justus von L.lebig, according to my
Judgment, who shows us the path we ore
to take to the most Important fild imag
inable, for without a sound body all our
acquisitions of modern times are worth
less. It would be a' simple and natural
solution of the question how to thwart
the degeneration of mankind if history
had not taught us that as often as a new
truth appears the oxen will butt their
horns against it. They can't help this,
because after Pythagoras had found the
master of aits Matheseos, he was so
overjoyed that he sacrificed l'JO oxen, to
the gods and since then the oxen are
attacked by a holy fright whenever a new
truth emerges.
Counsel to Oregon Rose Growers.
While I am fully aware that a treatise
on healthy, nutritious blood as applied
to vegetation does not vitally interest
the average reader (though it should
do so) I have written the foregoing as
the foundation for other articles on the
rose culture in Oregon which I hope to
make public In due time. For the pres
ent a remedy for mildew, more preva-
need not arrange them alternately, but
this is a case in point.
No. 1 will, of course, be thinking
of No. 2, the girl on his right, and the
girl. No. 2, will be thinking of No. 3.
the boy on her right; so the problem
will grow very mystifying if the ques
tions are asked rapidly, and the
answers are given without hesitation.
It is like a composite photograph of
the whole company, when he finds
some familiar trait or characteristic.
But often his next question leaves him
once more at sea.
This is a game full of laughter and
harmless Joking, and if the guesser is
really as ignorant as he seems that
makes it all the merrier.
Trading on Honesty.
A journalists' dinner in
"A
New
once
pub-
ork," said an editor, "I
heard the late William L. Brown,
Usher of the New York News, tell an in
teresting story about an upright Ohio
Judge.
"Colonel Brown said that when he was
running the Youngstown Vindicator a
civil case involving a large sum of money
was tried before this Judge. It was the
Smith-Jones case, and Smith won.
"A friend, meeting Smith later, said:
" 'I was surprised to hear that you won
that case. I thought the evidence was
rather in Jones' favor."
" 'Slay be it was.' said Smith, with a
cunning smile. 'But, you know, the
Judge is such an honest old boy. The
day before the case ended I sent him a
letter begging him to accept an enclosure
of $500.'
" 'Why," said the other, 'I should think
that would have made you lose your
case.'
" 'To be sure it would.' said Smith,
with another cunning smile; 'only I
signed Jones' name." "
Ill-Advlsed.
HAT speech was ill-advised.'
' said
a col-
I Senator Cullom. referring to
league's too outspoken address.
"It reminds me of a speech that a
widow made to her new husband on the
honeymoon.
" 'Oh.' she sighed, throwing herself In
the man's arms, 'how happy poor, dear
James would be if he could only know
by what an agreeable gentleman he has
been replaced.' "
Light Draught.
SENATOR PENROSE was discussing
Philadelphia's heed of a deeper chan
nel in the Delaware for ships.
"You know," he said, "how often ships
get stuck in the mud of the sDelaware
now. Actually, to traverse that diffi
cult stream with impunity you need as
lent now than ever before, is of highest
Importance.
This remedy consists of food which
will give sucii strength and vital force
to the sap that disease will be overcome.
Mildew is disease.
Reserving the topic for future discus
sion, I must here set down my. nxea
opinion, which I am able abundantly to
prove, that the main cause of disease in
Oregon roses is the unintelligent use of
unlmal manures. As the season for
applying fertilizer Is many weeks ahead,
this subject may be deferred for the
time being.
To give a familiar illustration of the
value of proper food in disease caused
by germs, take the treatment of tuber
culosis in the open air sanitarium. What
Is the Srst step? Feeding all the rich
milk and fresh eggs that a patient can
asimilate. What is the result? If
treatment is taken in time, the strength
ened blood resists the ravages of the
tubercle and soon overcomes it. ' In a
few months the condition of the patient
becomes normal.
Just so it is with the rose bush. Feed
It through its roots with a well bal
anced ration of minerals and you make
Its sap so healthy that It will drive
from trunk, branch, leaf and blossom
all the bacteria that have been under
mining its life.
Nutritious Salts for Roses.
Prescription of Dr. L. Dechmann's nu
tritive salts for roses:
(COPYRIGHT.)
Sulphate of lime luse common field
plaster) Bounces
Sulphate of sodium tuse common
Ulauher saltsl 1 ounce
Sulphate of magnesia luse common
Epsom salts! 1 ouncs
Sulphate of potassium luse commer
cial 2 ounces
Nitrate of sodium (use commercial). 'I ounces
Superphosphate (use commercial).. .4 ounces
10 ounces
Or one pound, which retails for about
20g:sc.
For spraying use a 1 per cent solution of
commercial sulphate of potassium.
By buying raw materials and mixing
It yourself, 18 pounds of my nutritive
salts would not cost more than from 50
to 60 cents. To apply the salts, loosen
the earth under each bush to the depth
of from four to five inches with hoe or
trowel. Cultivate thus, making a circle
IS to 24 Inches In diameter. Dig a shal
low trench, say 24 Inches deep at the cir
cumference, then sprinkle therein the nu
tritive salts; for small bushes, use 1H
ounces (a heaping tablespoonful) ; from
that amount up to three ounces for largo
bushes.
Then fill in the trench with earth and
give; the bush (according to size) a gal
lon to two gallons of water. Don't use
it cold from the faucet, but let It be
the temperature of the air. The salts
will dissolve readily and be taken up
by the roots. Within four days you will
notice a change for the better In the
foliage.
One dose of the nutritive salts is suf
ficient for the present.
Direct questions on the cultivation of
roses will be answered through the Sun
day Oregonlan. Address Dr. L. Dech
mann, private experiment station, Gresh
ain. Or. ' '
light a draught as they require on the
Cape May thoroughfares.
"Amazed at the way we skimmed
through creeks but an Inch or' two deep,
I said to a Cape May skipper one day:
" '1 suppose. Captain, that you think
nothing of sailing across the meadows
when there's been a heavy fall of dew?'
" 'Right you are," said the Captain,
though occasionally we have to send a
man ahead with a watering can.' "
The Nature Student's Cat.
JOHN BURROUGHS, the famous na
ture student, is never tired- of ridi
culing the new school of nature writers,
the school that attributes a rather human
intelligence to animals and Insects.
"Mr. Burroughs dined with me one
night," said a magazine editor of New
York, "and among my guestB was a
young nature writer of the new school.
"This young man told a wonderful
story about the intelligence of oysters.
He said he was going to put the story In
his new book. Mr. Burroughs gave a
dry laugh and said:
" 'Let me tell you about a cat. This
story, is quite as authentic as the other
one, and it should do for your book
nicely.'
"The venerable student paused impres
sively, then said:
" 'A Springfield couple had a cat that
age had rendered helpless and they put it
out of its misery by moans of chloroform.
They burled it in the garden and planted
a rosebush over its remains. The next
morning a familiar scratching took them
to the front door, and there -was the eat
waiting to be let in, with the rosebush
under its arm.' "
Buying or Selling.
ILLIAM B. RIDGBLY, the Comp
troller of the Currency, said of a
certain speculator the other day:
"The man Is as ingenious as a horse
dealer's son they used to tell about in
my native Springfield.
This boy was once unexpectedly called
upon by his father to mount a horse and
exhibit its paces.
"As he settled himself in the saddle the
boy. In order to regulate the horse's gait
accordingly, leaned down and whispered
to his father:
"'Are you buying or selling?'"
The Hypocritical Gunner.
R
EAR-ADMIRAL COGHLAN. during
dinner at Delmonico's. said of a
certain speech:
"The gentleman's remarks struck me
as hypocritical. It reminded me of the
gunner who. after having taken careful
aim and missed his bird, said:
" 'Ah. well, live and let live is my
motto.' "
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