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Fruit Notes 



Prepared by the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences - . ^^O'^Orr'^ /» 



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University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension, " ' ^ O 



United States Department of Agriculture, and Massachusetts Counties cooperating. ^PR ^ C) looq 



ISSN 0427-6906 



Editors: Wesley R. Autio and William J. Bramlage 



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Volume 53, Number 2 

 SPRING ISSUE, 1988 



Table of Contents 



Summer Pruning is Important for 

 Early Harvest of High Quality Mcintosh 



A Brief History of the Cultivated Strawberry 



The Initiation of a New IPM Program in Strawberries in 

 Massachusetts: Accomplishments in the Pilot Year 1987 



Benefits of Alar to Apple IPM Programs 



Results of the First Year of Second-stage Apple IPM Practices 



Singing in the Rain: The Effects of Weather on Plum Curculio 



Spring Migration 



A Comparison of Insecticidal Soap and Amitraz as Summer Sprays 



Against Pear Psylla 



A Report on the 1987 Massachusetts Apple IPM Program 



