so forth. By stump and basal spraying of these woody weed plants, the re- 

 claiming of abandoned blueberry land has become more profitable, and 

 many growers are taking advantage of this new technique. Properly sprayed 

 stumps do not resprout. while cutting without spraying is a continuous op- 

 eration as the unsprayed stumps sprout annually. 



W. W. Smith 



New Raspberry Variety Named New Hampshire 



Taylor Raspberries pollinated with pollen from Rubits chamaemorus 

 more than 10 years ago were carried into the second generation and field 

 tested under a wide variety of climatic conditions. A selection from this 

 cross was distributed as New Hampshire raspberry No. 101. It is now 

 given the name New Hampshire. It is a late bearing spring variety. Plants 

 are medium in height, but strong and somewhat branched. The roots are 

 unusually vigorous. It is a reasonably good plant maker. The fruits are 

 conical in shape, very firm, good flavor, red in color with a very small cav- 

 ity. Tests indicate that it has a high degree of winter hardiness. It has a long 

 fruiting period carrying through much later than most standard varieties 

 of red raspberry. It offers promise as a market variety for climatic condi- 

 tions as found in New Hampshire. 



A. F. Yeager, E. M. Meader 



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Do We Have a Virus in Our Apple Rootstocks? ^ 



The varieties Mcintosh, Cortland, and Spy, top-worked onto body 

 stocks of Virginia and Florence crab, came into production as quickly as 

 trees budded directly onto domestic roots. The trees that body-stock rooted 

 made excellent growth and production during the 12 year study. Trees of 

 the same scion body-stock combination that did not root became dwarfed, 

 developed "wood pitting" in the body stock, and broke down. Since the body 

 stocks were on domestic roots, the difference in performance of the trees 

 must be due to the variable domestic roots used for understocks. The incon- 

 sistent incompatabilities of Virginia crab with commercial apple varieties 

 that have been reported in the literature may well be a result of the hetero- 

 geneous seedlings that were used for nurse roots, or of the nurse roots' re- 

 sponse to a virus, and not an actual difference in the Virginia crab or in the 

 varieties with which they were grafted. 



The "wood pitting" and general appearance and behavior of the abnor- 

 mal trees have a striking resemblance to the citrus trees infected with the 

 virus disease "quick decline". 



W. W. Smith 



The Occurrence of Over-Coloring and Blotching 

 in Apples on Double Worked Apple Trees 



In 1950 in a hardy interstock planting it was noted that Cortland apples 

 on two of the trees that had a Florence crab interstock had a blotchy over- 

 color, there being areas on the surface of the apples that were green. These 

 areas were irregular in shape but had rather distinctive margins. In 1952 

 and 1953, more trees were discovered having apples of the same character- 

 istics. In 1954 some sixteen trees in the orchard showed this over-color 

 blotching. Fifteen of the trees were Cortland and one was Mcintosh. 



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