FRUIT 

 NOTES 



PREPARED BY 

 DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES 



COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE, 

 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS. UNITED 

 STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICES COOPERATING. 



EDITORS 

 W. J. LORD AND W. J. BRAMLAGE 



Vol. 48 No. 2 

 SPRING ISSUE, 1983 



Table of Contents 



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Nutritional Problems in 1982 and Suggestions for 

 Fertilization of Apple Trees in 1983 



Effects of Type of Nitrogenous Fertilizer Applied 

 Under Sturdeespur Delicious Trees on Exchangeable 

 Elements in the Soil 



Preliminary Findings From the Multi-State 

 Cooperative Apple Interstem Planting 



Future of Tree Fruit IPM in Massachusetts 



Publication Available 



Sampling Soil for Nematodes 



Pruning Plum Trees 



A Visual Monitoring Trap for the Apple Blotch 

 Leafminer 



Are High Density Strawberries on Ridges For You? 



Suggestions for Use of Calcium Sprays in 1983 



An Up-date on Calyz-end Rot, and Report of an 

 Apple Leaf Spot Caused by the Fungus 



Sclerotinia sclerotiorum 



Use of Promalin to Increase Branching of Young Trees 



I Issued by the Cooperative Extension Service, Daniel I. Padberg, Director, in furtherance 

 I of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914; United States Department of Agriculture and 



County Extension Services cooperating. The Cooperative Extension Service offers equal 



opportunity in programs and employment. 



