Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest (J Fruit Var & Hort Digest)
Volume 11 Number 4 Article 11 Pages: 60-60
Year 1957 Month 5
Title: A Disorder in Stanley Prune
Author: APS Citation
Abstract:
The Stanley Prune is one of the
really outstanding plums for the fruit
grower and gardener in the north-
central and northeastern states, It has
been a reliable cropper, large-fruited
and good in quality.
It is of interest,
therefore, that R. H. Hill, Jr., of Ohio
State University, reported this past
winter in Ohio Farm and Home Research
that the Stanley has been affected
by a disorder in recent years
which is devitalizing many young
bearing trees in Ohio.
He reports that
F. O. Hartman, of Ohio State University,
has evidence that this disorder
may possibly be associated with a rootstock
incompatibility.
The rootstocks
that may be involved are not mentioned.
Dr.
Hill does not feel, however,
that this rootstock problem is
serious enough to eliminate Stanley
from future plantings.
