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apple crop
An apple a day may keep the doctor away but, if abnormal temperature and weather conditions exist during the growing season, it may take more than one to do the job.
George E. Mattus, professor of horticulture at Virginia Tech, has report- | ed that the above average cold, cloudy, rainy, and foggy periods that existed during the 1972 growing season may have had adverse effects on Virginia's apple crop.
Lower - than - average temperatures existed during the first month after bloom in many areas of the state and fruit development was slightly delayed. However, late - season cool weather has helped stimulate red color and hasten ripening. Apple maturity date, therefore, seems to be about normal this season.
The above - average amount of cloudy, rainy, and foggy weather during the 1972 growing season reduced the amount of avail* able sunlight and caused apples to have a lowerthan-normal sugar content.
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