TreeCropper 65

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TreeCropper Issue 65 – March 2011 This issue was delayed in the Christchurch Earthquake ‘Red Zone’ for a few weeks.
Front cover: Crispie™, a new pipfruit cultivar, is a typical European shape with a light yellow colour. Bred by Plant & Food Research at Riwaka Research Station (see page 8) and commercialised by Prevar™. Copyright © The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited. All rights reserved.
1	Editor’s opinion	Sheryn Clothier
2	President’s message	Murray Redpath
3	Pips and pieces, Your letters
4	Re green printing	Sheryn Clothier
6	Conference 2011	Programme updates
8	Pears – Riwaka Research field trip	Peter Syms
10	Pears – Riwaka Research report	reproduced with kind permission
12	Guava Moth (FDC) control
13	Eucalyptus research	Jenny Horne
14	Avocado – growing advice	Hooshang Hasan
17	Cooking chestnuts	Sheryn Clothier
18	Hazelnuts – an international perspective	Jeff Olsen
23	Hazel walking stick	Clive Dalton
24	Biodynamics workshop	Peter Proctor
27	Grapefruit search	Mark Christensen
28	Soul Medicine, by Peter Fraser	Nasturium capers
29	Orangeberry	Fiona Boylan
30	St Andrew’s Limes	Ant Williams
32	Bob Berry – a profile	Peter Arthur
35	Autumn harvest – recipes	Lois Limmer
36	Book reviews
38	Encouraging predator wasps	Sheryn Clothier
40	Membership form, Committee contacts
Back cover: TreeCropper 63 contained an article on the uses of the South European Flowering Ash (Fraxinus ornus), also known as the Manna Ash due to the Manna Sugar which is extracted from it. This article prompted reader Clive Dalton to send the following pictures of a Manna Ash tree, its stump and a close-up of its leaves, and the stool Clive made for his grand-daughter Hazel. (He also bought her a hazel tree). Clive says: …(see TreeCropper 65 printed quarterly magazine of NZ Tree Crops Association)

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