FRUITpc 

 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. 44 (No. 2) 

 MARCH/ APRIL 1979 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Monitoring Apple Maggot Flies. Sawflies, and 



Plant Bugs with Visual Traps 

 Rootstock Testing on an International Basis 

 Treatment of Girdled Fruit Trees 

 Nutritional Problems in 1978 and Suggestions 



for Fertilization of Apple Trees in 1979 



Pomological Paragraph 

 Deeper planting may reduce suckering from 

 the rootstock on interstem trees. 



Apple Disease Incidence in Massachusetts 

 in 1978 



