FRUIT pr 

 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. 4 

 FALL ISSUE, 1984 



Table of Contents 



Fruit Notes Subscription 



Bigger Apples, Less Calcium, More Problems 



Photographs of Nutrient Deficiencies and Toxicities 

 and Heat Stress 



Pomological Paragraph — 



New Apple Rootstock Available 



The Consumer's View of Fresh Pears 



Pomological Paragraph — Harvest Indices 



Do Fungicide Residues Affect 

 Apple Maggot Fly Egglaying? 



Effects of Rootstock and Stempiece/Rootstock 

 Combinations on Growth, Leaf Mineral Concentrations, 

 Yield and Fruit Quality of "Empire" Apple Trees 



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

 ance 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. 



