HUGE WALNUT TREE
MAMMOTfi GROWTH"- AT NELSON
NELSON, Mar c h 7.
\ A most ‘interesting sight in Riwiaka. »%qt r .a. .‘stane'a thuowV from., the.' hotel, is an enormous 'walnut tree. . It is roughly ißft. at the butt and at 10ft. high it forks, .pieh fork being 4ft. at th Q ibao-e, and both are nearly -perpendicular to about 70ft. or 80ft. Several of 1 the lowest branch ek have drooped to the ground land taken root about 20ft. out. the ends turning up and- forming separate trees, thus giving the tre 8 a very great hold of'the ground. “The tree was planted by on, of the first settlors, about- -80. year« ago, and for many, years lias grown from 18 to 85 sacks of nuts each year, and % still ‘going strong.’
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1933, Page 6
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132HUGE WALNUT TREE Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1933, Page 6
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