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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 10

lu reply to au inquiry from Tiuiaru, as to why a crop of walnut-shells are beautifully formed and look well, yet in most cases contain only shrivelled nuts, the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture, says: ”Without. seeing a sample, one would expect the nuts described to lie tlio result of a. late attack of walnut-blight. However, in a crop comparatively tree from this disease, one finds a percentage of blank, shrivelled, or mouldy nuts aud darkcoloured kernals The extent is usually considered to be in proportion to abnormally high temperatures, and to the trees suffering from drought during the latter |iar( of (he growing-period, or to trees which for some reason have lost their loaves prematurely. Possibly the (rocs in question arc growing in unsuitable ground for producing a satisfactory crop of nuts. For this purpose good alluvial well-drained land is required.