Your committee, with help from a range of experienced growers, have produced more than 60 pages of new information including:

• Profiles of the cultivars

• The latest research

• Harvesting methods and maintaining the quality of your nuts

• Flowering pollination and fruiting the biology of walnut trees and the timing of bud burst (A useful complement to your manual's colour pages.)

• Money matters. How much money can you make from walnuts?

You can buy the new pages to add to the 1st Edition folder for $ 18.00 plus $2.00 postage (a total of $20.00 including GST).

A complete new second edition will now cost $65 plus $7.00 postage including GST (a total of $72.00 incl). Profits go to your Walnut Industry Group's contribution to the research. [for postage in NZ only]

You will only need the new pages if you bought your manual before July 2006.

We feel sure that the new chapters will be a valuable addition to your manual.

Glenys Pluck is our volunteer for processing the orders. Please complete the order form or write to her at Dunns Crossing Road, Rolleston, RD 8, Christchurch, 7678, and address your cheque to New Zealand Walnut Industry Group.

Ralph Brown
Chair
Manual Committee