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 

 JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1971 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Varieties of Apples for Massachusetts 



Plum Varieties 



Changes in Insecticide Recommendations for 1971 



Glyodin Not Available to Fruit Growers for 1971 and 

 Phenyl Mercury Acetate is a Bit Shaky 



Jold Injury to Peach Trees 



Improve Young Orchards with Limb Spreaders 



Pomological Paragraphs 



Apple trees tolerant to terbacil 

 Pruning severity as related to scion/rootstock 

 combinations 



Factors Influencing the Shape of Apples 



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. 



