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 



Volume 50, No. 3 

 SUMMER ISSUE, 1985 



Table of Contents 



Compatability of Selected Apple 

 Rootstocks with Massachusetts Soils 



Predicting the Keeping Quality of 

 Macintosh Apples from Preharvest Mineral 

 Analyses of Fruit 



Biological Control of Weeds 



Update on the Relative Toxicity of 

 Orchard Pesticides to the Predator Mite 

 Ambiyseius fallacis 



Putting Theory into Practice 



The Soft Fruit Industry in England 



Parking Tips for Roadside Markets 



Issued by the Cooperative Extension Service, E. Bruce MacDougall, Dean, in further- 

 ance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914; United States Department of Agriculture 

 and County Extension Services cooperating. The Cooperative Extension Service offers 

 equal opportunity in programs and employment. 



