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Fire blight Control on Newly Planted Apple Trees

Resistant fire-blight has previously been found in CA, OR, WA, MO, MI and Western NY.

       Source- Dr. Rosenberger, Extension Plant Pathologist, via Mike Fargione,
Extension Educator, Cornell- Tree Fruit Grower Alert Message 4/30
Edits for NJ by Win Cowgill

Spray Cherry Trees for Bacterial Canker

Win Cowgill, Professor and Area Fruit Agent

Bacterial Canker continues to be a serious bacterial disease of both sweet and tart cherry in New Jersey as well as all other regions where the climate is humid. Bacterial canker or bacterial gummosis of sweet cherry is caused by several Pseudomonas bacterium.
This disease infects flower buds and spurs.