Durinc the past two seasons a peculiar blight, or rot, has assailed walnut trees, and last season the loss to growers was fairlv heavv (states the Ashburton "Guardian”). This year gives little better promise, the nut being more or less tainted by black spots. The growing of walnuts in Ashburton is undertaken on a large scale, and one working man’s wife, from the sale of nuts, has been enabled to take a reallv good holiday, and to fill her children’s wardrobes. In all the fruit realised over £l2.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 6
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