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. 45 No. 3 

 MAY/JUNE 1980 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



The Way You Fertilize Your Fruit Trees Can Affect the 

 Quality of the Fruit You Harvest 



Suggestions for Use of Calcium Sprays in 1980 



Suppressing Weed Growth Under Fruit Trees 



Pomological Paragraph 



Influence of Pruning Peach Trees Late in the Spring 



The Use of Promalin to Elongate Delicious Apples: 

 Research Observations and Suggestions for Use in 1980 



Soil Management of Peach Trees 



Sampling Methods and Provisional Economic Threshold 

 Levels for Major Apple Insect and Mite Pests in 

 Massachusetts 



Managing Mummy-Berry Disease of Blueberries in 

 Massachusetts 



