MAMMOTH WALNUT TREE
ABOUT EIGHTY YEARS OLD.
REMARKABLE MEASUREMENTS. At a meeting of the Nelson Bush and Bird Preservation Society recently the appended letter was read from Mr H. F. G. Sparrow, of Takaka: —“A most interesting sight in Riwaka, not a stone's throw from the hotel, is an enormous walnut tree. 1 had no idea I should see such au extraordinary sight, and 1 was not prepared to mca. sure it accurately. It is roughly Bft. at the butt and at. 10ft. high it forks, each fork being 4ft. at the base, and both are nearly perpendicular to about 70ft. or 80ft. Several of the lowest branches have drooped to the ground, and taken run about 20ft. out, the ends turning up and forming separate trees, thus giving the tree a very great hold of the ground. “The tree was planted by one of the first settlers, about 80 years ago. and for many years has grown from 18 to 25 sacks of nuts each year, and is still ‘going strong.’ I know there are many nature-lovers around Nelson but I believe there are but few who have heard of this wonder.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 72, 7 March 1933, Page 3
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