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An Odd Blackcap » In the crotch of an elm tree on the M.S.C. campus, 

 about 8 feet from the ground, is a blackcap plant which thrived during the 

 1945 season and gives promise of bearing fruit this summer. The plant 

 probably started from a seed dropped by a bird. If it is able to fruit in 

 so hopeless a location, it is a reflection on a grower if he fails to get 

 results with plants growing in a good soil, 



Ammate Affects Apple Leaves , Several orchards are showing a 

 peculiar yellowing of the leaves v/here nearby poison iv^"- was sprayed with 

 Animate last summer. On young trees, half of the leaves may be so affected. 

 The yellov-dng, unlike that in magnesium deficiency, is confined to the 

 veins and midrif of the leaf giving it a mottled appearance. If a spray 

 intended for poison ivy reaches many of the leaves of the tree, the 

 results may be disastrous. 



Scab Eradication . Never before have we seen such widespread 

 infection of Mcintosh trees. Even in well sprayed orchards an occasional 

 scab spot can be found vfhile others are so hopelessly infected that further 

 fungicidal sprays are of doubtful value. Everybody is interested in using 

 Puratized or lime sulfur and many are applying one or the other. The 

 results seem to range from near failure to perfection. The former may be 

 explained on the basis of poor coverage or infections not evident v/hen 

 the spray was applied, Amateurs viho had someone spray their trees only 

 to find that the leaves dried up v.'ill no.turally bla me the spray instead 

 of the already ruined foliage. 



TEN YEARS OF FRUIT NOTES 



Our monthly publication had its beginnings about the time of the 

 1936 flood. The first issue in our file is dated March of that year. In 

 the intervening years we have touched on a fairly wide range of fruit topics 

 without attempting to give all of the details. If Fruit Notes has 

 accomplished anything more than serving to remind readers of new develop- 

 ments, it may be along the line of emphasizing such fundamental things as 

 better spraying, correcting magnesiu:n deficiency, pollination and orchard 

 management. Any reader with an idea v/hich nseds to be presented is invited 

 to send his suggestions in writing to the "iditor, 



STRAFreERRY "IWBBINS " 



Undersized strav;^berries with hard undeveloped tips are of co:nmon 

 occurrence particularly in beds tv/o or more years old. Many expl conations 

 are offered such as frost and poor pollination, which may have no relation 

 to the problem in a particular planting. Self fruitful varieties soldom 

 suffer from faulty pollination. In fact, a number of obscure little bees 

 are generally active while strav^^berries are in bloom. And if an insect 

 crav^ls over a blossom at all, it would be most likely to contact that 

 part which becomes the tip of the berry. Frost, too can be discounted 

 because "nubbins" come mainly from nidseason or later blossoms, not from 



