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ruit Notes 



ISSN0427-6906 



iricpared by the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences. 



University of Massachusetts Cooperative Ebctenslon System, 



United States Department of Agriculture, and Massachusetts Counties Cooperating. 



Editors: Wesley R. Autio and Williaxn J. Braxnlage 





Volume 59, Number 2 

 SPRING ISSUE. 1994 



Table of Contents 



Pinal Report on the 1980 NC-140 Apple 



Rootstock Planting: Starkspur Supreme 



Delicious on Eight Rootstocks 



Buildup of Bugs Causes Decline in EfTectiveness of Sticky 

 for Capturing Apple Maggot Flies on Red Sphere Traps 



What Species of Predaceous Mites Exist in Massachusetts 



Commercial Apple Orchards? 



How Beneficial are Pre-bloom Oil Sprays Against European Red Mites? 



North American Strawberry Growers Meet in Ontario 



Promising New Apple Cultivars for 1994 



Suggestions for the Use of the New Postbloom Thinner Accel* 



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