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 your 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 this 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 5 Christchurch and address your cheque to New Zealand Walnut Industry Group.

Ralph Brown
Chair
Manual Committee