TEH VINE IN NEW ZEALAND.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 51, 3 December 1886, Page 3

TEH VINE IN NEW ZEALAND.

Tlie Australintift are making wine, and the New Zealanders have been vainly endeavoring to follow suit. They find their climate too sunless and humid for the successful cultivation of the grapes which thrive so well in Australia, California aiul Southern France. They have, however, been wide-awake enough to make intelligent comparisons, and have found in tlie Atlantic States, especially in Virginia, climatic conditions very closely approaching their own. They have also found that good wine grapes are grown in that section of the I’nited States, and a Commissioner sent on to investigate the matter concludes that American stock are needed for New Zealand vineyard purposes. The Isabella in particular has been tested to some extent, with the most favorable results. It \< now proposed to establish under (iovenimeiit auspices two experimental stations on the North Island, for the propagation of those varieties of grapes which are found to do well on the Atlantic seaboard, and to endeavor to make wine-growing a feature of New Zealand industry. The colonists certainly deserve success for their energy and intelligent efforts to adapt means to ends.—San Francisco Bulletin.