FRUIT 

 NOTES 



PREPARED BY 

 DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES 



COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE, 

 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED 

 STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICES COOPERATING. 



EDITORS 

 W. J. LORD AND W. J. BRAMLAGE 



Vol. 38 (No. 4) 

 JULY-AUGUST, 1973 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Preliminary Suggestions for the Use of Ethephon (Ethrel*) 

 on 'Mcintosh' Apple Trees 



Summer Care of Fruit Trees 



Pomological Paragraph 



Firmness benefits from Alar 



1972 Blueberry Survey 

 Pomological Paragraph 



Some cost figures on picking apples 

 Storing Blueberry Netting 



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

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



