To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] thin shelled black walnuts
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:11:20 -0500
At 06:09 PM 7/6/2004 -0700, Lon wrote:
About the best selection of thin shelled black walnuts (trees, that is) can
be found at http://www.nuttrees.net/
In addition to my friend Clifford England, at the URL above, John & Lisa
Brittain also offer a good selection of superior quality black walnut
cultivars from their Nolin River Nut Tree Nursery - http://www.nolinnursery.com
Check out the info in the Purdue U. article linked below. The table
listing nut size & kernel % is pretty good, but doesn't include all the
'good' ones - notable omissions are Thomas Myers and Rowher, which bear
large thin-shelled nuts with kernel % in excess of 35%.
Although the linked article lists 'Thomas' as being anthracnose resistant,
I don't think that's borne out to be the case in this part of the country.