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. 40 (No. 2) 

 MARCH/APRIL 1975 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Causes of Peach Tree Decline 



Let's Reduce the Damage to Peach Trees from Cytospora 



Canker 

 Effect of Nitrogen and Potassium Fertilizer on Color, 



Russet and Cork Spot of Golden Delicious Apples 

 Influence of Lime, Source of Nitrogen, and/or Time of 



Application on Vegetative Growth and Fruit of Sturdy 



Spur Delicious 

 Pomological Paragraph 



Elimination of Sod with Herbicides 

 Response of Mcintosh Apple Trees to Annual Applications 



of Dichlobenil (Casoron*) 

 Farm Marketing Publications Available 



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

 Untversitv of Massachusetts, United States Departrnent of Agriculture and County Extension Services cooperating. 



