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research article

Sodium leaf scorch of apricot: Condition causing damage to orchards in Hemet area improved by heavy irrigation treatments with contour basin checks

authors

Dean D. Halsey, University of California
N. L. McFarlane, University of California.
Richard J. Schut, University of California.

publication information

California Agriculture 12(9):4-5. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v012n09p4. September 1958.

author affiliations

Dean D. Halsey is Farm Advisor, Riverside County, University of California. N. L. McFarlane is Farm Advisor, Riverside County, University of California. Richard J. Schut is Extension Assistant, Riverside County, University of California.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Salting out, or dieback—sodium scorch—of apricot was improved substantially—in an experimental plot near Hemet—by the heavy application of irrigation water as a corrective treatment.