TreeCropper Issue 48 - December 2006

Front cover:
Ebony and Ivory raspberries. These Rubus idaeus have just been released at the Ellerslie Flower show by incredible edibles®
Ebony (cascading) has no spines and Ivory (upright) has, as well as some summer fruit, a main autumn crop on the last 10-20 buds of new canes. Ivory is licensed by Chris Thomas and Ebony was bred by HortResearch. Tharfield Nursery Ltd under the incredible edibles® brand has these available at your local garden centre. Visit their website - www.edible.co.nz. Photos courtesy of incredible edibles®.

• Open opinion
• President's report
• North Island Vice-President's report
• South Island Vice-President's report
• Mailbox
• Christmas Gift subscriptions
• Another world - Eden Project and The Lost Gardens of Heligan
• Forest gardening
• Getting the funds - funding sources for NZTCA projects
• Branch Innovations Fund
• Ants
• Conference 2007 - speakers
• Conference 2007 - field trips
• Conference 2007 - registration form
• Conference 2007 - food competition
• Accommodation
• Rewards
• I'm alright Jak - jackfruit
• Budding
• Olive die-back
• Walnuts
• Walnut trial / walnut weekend
• Walnuts - a health food
• Dehydrating summer fruits
• Book reviews
• Obituary - Owen Long
• Pips and pieces
• Membership application form - Contacts

Rear cover:
Top - Actinidia arguta, lately referred to as the kiwi berry. A smooth-skirted, sweet, green, baby kiwi fruit.
Bottom - Mespilus germanica, Medlar. A pipfruit from the Middle Ages, similar in appearance to a small apple. Astringent until fully ripe with a distinctive taste.

TreeCropper Issue 47 - September 2006

Front cover: Pollinating the Prunus sp.

• Guest editorial
• President's report
• Vice-Presidents' reports
• Conference 2007
• Reg Lewthwaite - Conference 2007
• Kay Baxter - Conference 2007
• Sheltering Saundridge
• The great plum search
• Plums on Rangitaiki plains
• Nelson plum trial
• NZTCA publications
• Mangosteen
• Help - litchis and mangoes
• Andy Barratt - Research and development
• Bananas
• Ironic Banana
• Pretty pests - Eastern Rosella
• Chinese Olives
• Book reviews
• Rewards
• Pips and pieces
• Recipes
• Membership application form - Contacts

Rear cover, clockwise from top left:
Mangosteen, John Thompson and the Saundridge shelter belts, Mangosteen, Yellow Ogan Plum, Eastern Rosella

TreeCropper Issue 46 - June 2006

• Guest editorial "Concerning NZTCA" by founding member J. Doug Davies
• President's report - successful conference, changes, vision
• Vice-Presidents' reports - Murray Redpath's first report, re-interpreting "tree cropping"
• Mailbox: Almond hunt, almond cracker, quince search, wooden fuel (totarol, ethanol-petrol)
• Experiencing Conference 2006
• Introducing our 2006/2007 Management Committee
• Dr Don McKenzie Award presented to Mark Christensen
• Flaxability - NZ Flax: shelter, fibre, gel, seed oil
• The Second NZ Fig Growers' Workshop
• Black gold - Truffles
• An alternative attack on birds: decoy crops
• Tracking down old trees, by Mr W Bellman
• Certifiably green - going organic, by Philippa Gravatt of Franklin Branch
• And the winner is... -TreeCropper
• NZTCA Publications for sale
• Research Co-ordinator Gordon Lees
• Focus for the future - research directions
• Getting the goods on Goji - nutritious fruit, or the latest medical wonder food?
• Asking about almonds - trial report
• Lemon Grass
• Trials for tree croppers - a How To, by Heather North
• Trapping possums - Waikanae member Trevor Wright
• Book reviews - Growing Figs in NZ - Growing Citrus in NZ
• Pips & pieces - classified advertising
• Conference 2007 - Friday 13 to Sunday 15 April 2007
• Membership form and NZTCA contacts

Cover: The involucre and nuts of the Turkish hazel as found on Conference 2006 field trip to Gordon and Heather Tarrant's property. Corylus colurna, is one of the hazel species that grows as a tree with a single trunk (no suckers). Has been used as a rootstock for normal hazels. A wonderful ornamental tree with better yellow autumn colour than the normal hazel, C. avellana. Fingers - Nick Nelson Parker.

TreeCropper Issue 45 - March 2006

• Guest editorial "Our magazine - TreeCropper" by Maurice Denton
• President's report - awash with plums
• Vice-Presidents' reports: three contrasting properties; history of treecropping
• Mailbox: almonds wanted, elderberry, permanent labels, amygdalin, processing pine nuts, olive press fabric
• Hazel search - wanted: old hazelnut plantings
• The plum of the crop
• The $15 forest - moso (Phyllostachys edulis)
• Project Paddock - soil: Getting the Dirt on the Dirt
• Research officer - David Klinac: Future research projects
• What crops? matching natural products for packaging of fruit and nuts - Dr Janet Yu, HortResearch
• Managment committee extracts
• NZTCA publications - also: "A Beginner's Guide to Chestnut Growing" by Guy Goldsborough
• Mulching - Dr Tim Jenkins (More on Mulching)
• Book review: "Nut Grower's Guide" written by Jennifer Wilkinson
• pH
• Ladybirds and aphid control - Derek Craig
• Continuous Cover Forestry; CCF in practice - articles by Eric Cairns
• Wondering about Wampi (Claucena lansium) - John Prince
• Limb report - clippings from our Branches
• Tane's Tree Trust - native trees for serious farms - Andy Barrett
• Conference 2006 - other attractions
• Conference 2006 - speakers
• Obituary - Ernie New
• Recipes by Julie Craig: Verjus; Cerulean Blue Sauce
• Pips & Pieces - classified ads
• Membership application form
• NZTCA contacts

Cover: Assorted plums - Fortune, Burbank, Satsuma and Luisa. Photograph by Sheryn Clothier, plums by Margaret and Maurice Denton.

TreeCropper ISSUE 44 - December 2005

• Guest editorial "...need for a spokesperson against bureaucracy..."
• President's report - Diana's Northern visit, Forestry seminar, our Conferences...
• Vice-Presidents' reports "...importing new plant material...ground durable posts"
• Mailbox - Latin names; apples and cancer
• 2006 Conference programme
• Pre-conference tour
• Conference field trip 1
• Conference field trip 2
• Conference field trip 3
• Conference field trip 4
• Conference field trip 5
• Fig growers workshop
• Limb report
• Manoao (Manoao colensoi)
• NZTCA publications
• Research officer - Murray Redpath
• What we have on hazels
• Hazel research in NZ
• Weed and wart remover (Euphobia peplus)
• The black sapote (Diospyros digyna)
• Brandenburg Coppice at Lincoln
• Poisonous native plants
• Recipe by Julie Craig - home-made ice-cream with loquat jelly ripple
• Pips & Pieces - classified ads
• Membership application form
• NZTCA contacts

Cover: A green shield beetle on a hazel nut. Photograph by Murray Redpath.

TreeCropper ISSUE 43 - October 2005

• Editorial
• President's report
• Vice Presidents' reports
• 2006 Conference
• Research and Development Focus
• Dealing with Old Man's Beard
• A Rainforest fruit from Australia - Pouteria australe
• Biosecurity laws choke exotic plant imports
• Bonsai bags
• Sweet sap - the sugar maple
• Planting the world in Hawkes Bay - Guthrie Trust
• Limb report (branch's upcoming events, highlights)
• The benefits of the apple - Central Districts' Apple Research - update
• Saving the apple - Coastal Otago's cultivar preservation orchard
• Identifying the apple
• Fascinated with flax - conference speaker Liz McGruddy
• Points on pruning
• Cropping in the USA
• Fooling the frost
• A plant by any other name
• Pips & Pieces
• Obituary - Ross Jamieson
• Recipe - PorkTenderloin with StrawberryLoquat Sauce

Cover: Anne Elphick prunes a three-year-old stone fruit tree at the Waikato Branch's pruning demonstration in August.

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 42 - July 2005

• The President's Column
• Congratulations on West Coast Conference
• Obituary - Eunice Smith
• President's Reports
• Figs flourish in Nelson and Marlborough
• North Island Vice-President's report
• South Island Vice-President's report
• Reconnecting NZTCA with the science system
• Pistachios show much promise
• Notes from the South Island Branches

Front Cover Photo - Chinese wine berries growing on Larry and Dianne Wehners' property at Barrytown on the West Coast (Photo by Glenys Christian)

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 41 - March 2005

• The President's Column
• West Coast Conference News
• Conference Registration Form
• Chestnut Peeler Evaluated
• Motueka Research Report
• Call for Applications for Branch Innovations Fund
• Membership Application Form

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Front Cover Photo ~ Cranberries grown on the West Coast - just one of the sights you can see by coming to Conference 2005. Photo supplied by Cranberries NZ Ltd

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 40 - December 2004

• The President's Column
• In memorium - Roland Clark
• West Coast Conference News
• Welcome to the West Coast Conference May 2005
• Wasabi at Barrytown
• Tai Poutini Polytechnic West Coast
• Stunning New Cabbage Trees
• Organising Committee Member Gill Pontin
• Black Passionfruit in Karamea
• Blueberries at Ikamatu
• Tea Tree at True Blue Organics
• Ambitious Plans to Further Apple Research
• New Gevuina Nut Growers' Society
• Celebrate Tree Crops' 30th Anniversary Historically
• Call for Applications for Branch Innovations Fund

Front Cover Photo ~ Passionfruit growing in Karamea are just one of the surprising crops to be seen on The Tree Crops Conference on the West Coast in May, 2005. (Photo - Glenys Christian).
 

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 39 - September 2004.

• The President's Column.
  
• Fig Interest Group
• 30th Anniversary Celebrations in Canterbury
• Tree Crops Association... Beginnings
• West Coast Conference
• Something Different, Something New
• Farm Forestry at Fox Creek
• Plenty of Reasons to Plant Pecans
• How Safe Are You?
• End in Sight for Guava Moth?
• Propagating Poplar Poles for Profit
• South Island Notes
• Biocides

Front Cover Photo ~ Unripe fig (Ficus carica) taken in April at Nelson by G R 'Dick' Roberts, © Natural Sciences Image Library.
 

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 38 - June 2004.

• The President's Column.
  
• Les Gruebner receives Don McKenzie Award.
  
• President's Report.
  
• North and South Island vice-presidents' reports.
  
• Highly successful Bay of Plenty Conference.
  
• Green vegetable bug on macadamias.
  
• Apples help in cancer fight.
  
• Roy Hart's research report.
  
• Fig trial results.
  
• Progress on guava moth research and control.

Front Cover Photo ~ Walnuts on John and Thelma Williams' property.
 

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 37 - March 2004.

• The President's Column.
• Going forward with feijoas.
• Notice of AGM.
• Bay of Plenty Conference April 2-4.
• South Island branch notes.
• Review of walnut manual.
• Research report- David Klinac.
• A future for Sapodilla.
• Bitter tea in Vietnam.
• North Island vice president's travels.

Front Cover ~ Feijoas growing well at Alastair and Mary Lock's Waikato orchard.
 

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 36 - December 2003.

• The President's Column.
• Notice of AGM.
• Chestnuts in Vietnam.
• Bay of Plenty Conference Programme.
• Do we Need a Patron?
• Chestnuts at Whakerewarewa.
• Olive Report.
• Woolly Aphid Control.
• South Island Branch Roundup.

Front Cover ~ Chestnuts (Dick Roberts Library).
 

THE TREE CROPPER ISSUE 35 - September 2003.

• The President's column.
• Obituary - Mary Banks.
• Bay of Plenty Conference, April 2004.
• Redwoods and Shelter.
• Fodder Options.
• TCA book list.
• Profile - John Prince and Rosemary Steele.
• Improving Macadamia.
• Medicinal Plants.

Cover Photos ~ Thanks to Gail Newcomb and Les Gruebner for the cover photos - a small taste of what will be on show in the Bay of Plenty during their national conference in April, 2004.