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. BRAAALAGE 



SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1968 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



In Memoria 



Dr. Walter D. Weeks 



Bird Damage - What Is It? 



Things to Remember as You Harvest Apples 



Chemicals to Help with the Harvest 



Pomological Paragraph 

 Blight-Resistant Pears 



Origin of Some Old and New Apple Varieties 



Fruit Color - Its Nature and Changes 



New Publications of Interest 



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. 



