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. 3 

 SUMMER ISSUE, 1984 



Table of Contents 



Factors Influencing DPA Residues on Apples 



Pomological Notes — Response to Chemical Thinning 



Harvesting, Storing and Ripening Pears 



Apple Fruit Growth 



The "Marshall" Mcintosh 



Pomological Paragraph 



Pomological Notes 



Predicting Harvest Size of Mcintosh Apples 



A Survey of the Cost of Growing and Harvesting Apples 

 in Eastern New York in 1983. 



Daily Activity of Apple Blotch Leafminer Adults 



ssued by the Cooperative Extension Service, E. Bruce MacDougall, Dean, in further- 

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

 ind County Extension Services cooperating. The Cooperative Extension Service offers 

 squal opportunity in programs and employment. 



