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 



Volume 49 No. 2 

 SPRING ISSUE, 1984 



Table of Contents 



Heading Cuts on Apple Trees Reduce Yields 



Pomoiogical Paragraph — Soil and Plant Tissue Testing 



Recommendations for Fertilizing Apple Trees and 

 Increasing Calcium Content of Fruit 



Care of Trees on Arrival from the Nursery 



Practicality and Longevity of Hardpan Modification 



The Apple Maggot in Massachusetts, Michigan and 

 West Coast States 



Gala — An Apple Variety Worthy of Trial 



The Use of Promalin to Improve the Shape of 

 Delicious Apples 



Freedom: A New Disease-Resistant Apple 



Performance of Disease-Resistant Apples 



Gray Mold on Strawberries 



Issued by the Cooperative Extension Service in furtherance 



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. 



