FRUIT 

 NOTES 



PREPARED BY 

 DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES 



MASSACHUSETTS COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 



UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED 



STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND 



MASSACHUSETTS COUNTIES COOPERATING 



EDITORS 

 W. R, AUTIO AND W. J. BRAMLAGE 



Volume 51 No. 2 

 SPRING ISSUE, 1986 



Table of Contents 



Scoring: An Old but Useful Technique 



Pomological Paragraphs: Chemical Control 

 of Vetch, Determining the Need to Thin 



Synthetic Pyrethroids: Benefits Versus 

 Biological Costs in Fruit Management 



Is Chemical Peach Thinning on the Horizon? 



A Telephone Survey of Extension IPM 

 Program Impacts on Commercial Apple 

 Growers in Massachusetts 



Large Crabgrass — A Problem Weed 



The 1985 Alar i'i' Survey, 



Pollination of Blueberries, Strawberries, 

 and Blackberries 



Issued bv the Cooperative Extension Service, E Bruce MacDougall, Dean, 

 in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, University of Mas- 

 sachusetts, United Stales Department of Agriculture and Massachusetts 

 counties cooperating. The Cooperative Extension Service offers equal op- 

 portunity in programs and employment 



