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TreeCropper Issue 51 – September 2007
Front cover: As seen during an NZTCA 2007 Conference field trip to the West Auckland property of Wade and Jenny Cornell, a banana flower setting fruit. The type of banana is generally called a “sugar-type banana” as compared with the tropical commercial “Cavendish type banana”. The variety is either Misi, Luki or Hamoa, there is no observable difference. The sugar-type bananas have much more flavour and are more rich and creamy. They are not used commercially in the tropics as their production is less per hectare. They ripen more easily in subtropical conditions whereas the Cavendish require more tropical conditions.
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editor’s opinion
Sheryn Clothier
2
message from the president
John Dean
3
2008 conference
Eastwoodhill trip
tree crop bed swap
4
two ways to get a new avocado cultivar
Dr Robert Mann
8
pecan
Paul Dodgshun
9
reviews
John Dean, Sheryn Clothier
10
tamarillo tangoTM
incredible edibles®
12
pollination
Nick Milne
14
growing timber
Wade Cornell
16
Nelson branch profile
Peter Syms
20
commercialising murtilla in Chile
Andy Barratt
24
Campomanesia lineatifolia
John Prince
26
weta motels
Craig Bleakley, Ian Stringer
28
say it with…er…nuts – heartnuts
Alfred Harris
30
gevuina – research co-ordinator’s report
Murray Redpath
34
gevuina – field notes from Chile
Paul Kennel and Joanna Scott-Kennel
35
selective sheep – Shropshire
Lorne Kuehn
WebAppendix – rennaissance for the Shropshire sheep breed
Shropshires for weed-control in Christmas Tree plantations
