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 



JULY-AUGUST, 1968 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



The Best Understocks for New England Orchards 



Pomological Paragraphs 

 Harvest Labor 

 Why 



Clean Tree Bases 

 Blackbird Control 



Strawberry Bed Fumigation 



Observations of Fruit Research Activities in England 



Pennsylvania Apple Industry 



Northeast Mechanical Fruit Harvesting Demonstration 

 Days 



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

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



