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PEACH BUDS AND L0£ TEIvIPERATURES 



Peach buds in the University orchard survived a minimum temperature of -16,5° 

 on January 24, A recent examination reveals that there is less than 1% injury to 

 tender varieties such as Triogem and Golden east. In some seasons a minimum 

 temperature of -16° v/ould cause considerable injury to peach buds or might even 

 destroy all of them. Such seasons are those v;hich have periods of mild v/eather 

 followed by a sudden drop to a low minimum. Fortunately for the peach growers, 

 this winter has been one of long continued cold v;ithout any periods of mild 

 weather. The maximum temperature barely v/ent above freezing for a month previous 

 to January 24 and there were seven or more nights when the temperature was below 

 zero. This extended cold spell conditioned the peach buds so that they were able 

 to withstand the low temperatures which occurred in our peach orchard. In orchards 

 where the minimum temperature dropped lower than -16° there will no doubt be more 

 injury than we observed, but it should take an extremely low temperature to kill 

 every peach bud this year. 



— W, D, Y.^eeks 



New Strawberry Variety Released Fairland, a new, early, 

 red-stele resistant strawberry which may be adapted to 

 NeiT England, has been released by the USDA and the Univ. 

 of Maryland, Trials in the Northeast indicate Fairland 

 as suited to the region v/here Howard 17 is an important 

 variety. Selected in 1938 from crosses between Aberdeen 

 and Fairfax at the Plant Industry Station at Beltsville, 

 Maryland, Fairland has been widely tested as US-3205, 

 Interested growers may buy Fairland plants from nurseries 

 in Maryland and Delaware which cooperated in conducting 

 the field trials. 



Blueberry Pollination The importance of cross pollination of blueberry 

 varieties is emphasized in experiments by E, M, Meader and G, M. Darrow 

 covering a period of 3 years, l/ork v>rith 15 highbush varieties show that 

 cross pollination usually increased the crop sufficiently to warrant 

 inter-planting of two or more varieties. It tended to increase the 

 percentage of fully developed seeds per berry and resulted in larger 

 berries. In 1945 the cross pollinated Rubel gave a AZfo greater crop 

 than the self pollinated, and the yield for the first 8 days of har- 

 vest v/as 3,6 tipaes that of the self pollinated. 



Raspberry Spur Blight Succumbs to Fermate A raspberry planting 

 in the Connecticut Valley v.-hich v/as so badly infected by Spur 

 Blight as to be practically worthless, has recovered completely 

 under Fermate treatments and promises a bumper crop this season. 

 Two Fermate applications on the new canes, plus a Delayed 

 Dormegit application of Elgetol where the infection is severe, 

 will do the trick. For full details, get a copy of the mimeo- 

 graphed leaflet from your county extension office. Fermate is 

 what might be termed a "specific fungicide" for the control of 

 both Spur Blight and Anthracnose, 



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