FRUIT NOTES 



Prepared by the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences 



Cooperative Extension Service 



College of Agriculture 



University of Massachusetts, Amherst 



EDITORS 



W. J. LORD AND W. J. BRAMLAGE 



NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1967 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



New England Fruit Meetings and Trade Show 



Dichlobenil, A Promising Herbicide for the Orchard 



Pomological Paragraph 



Harvesting Cultivated Blueberries Mechanically 



Research from Other Areas 



Effect of Sunlight on Apples During the Growing 



Season 

 Comparison of Growth Habit and Leaf Composition 



of Starkrimson and Starking Delicious Trees 

 Suitability of Strawberry Varieties for Freezing 

 Effect of Winter Mulches on Strawberry Yields 



Pomological Paragraph 

 Publication Available 



Cider Notes 



Issued by the Cooperative Extension Service, A. A. Spielman, Dean and Director, in fxjrtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914; 

 University of Massachusetts, United States Department of Agriculture and County Extension Services cooperating. 



