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much more pretentious shows often sigh in vain for municipal support. It would 

 seem his worship was an exhibitor at the show, and not a whit the less useful 

 mayor will he be in consequence. Weighing commenced about four o'clock, Mr 

 H. P. Foster officiating as weigher, and Mr Sandaver of Southwell as judge. The 

 following is a list of the awards : Premier Prize (heaviest of all colours) — Mr 

 J. T. Egglestone's London, 26 dwts. 4 grs. Reds. — Mr Fretwell's London, 26 

 dwts. 2 grs. ; Mr Newton's London, 25 dwts. 14 grs. ; Mr Grocock's Ploughboy, 

 21 dwts. 3 grs. ; Mr Earp's Wonderful, 18 dwts. 21 grs. Yellows.— Mr Fret- 

 well's Leveller, 21 dwts. 22 grs. ; Mr Grocock's Leader, 20 dwts. 15 grs. ; Mr 

 Chatwin's Leveller, 20 dwts. 2 grs. ; Mr Noddall's Drill, 17 dwts. 16 grs. 

 Greens.— Mr W. Clarke's Stockwell, 21 dwts. 1 gr. ; Mr C. Clark's Stockwell, 

 20 dwts. 12 grs. ; Mr Asman's Green London, 20 dwts. ; Mr Asman's Shiner, 

 18 dwts. 2 grs. Whites. — Mr W. Clarke's Antagonist, 20 dwts. 19 grs.; Mr 

 Chutwin's Antagonist, 20 dwts. 18 grs. ; Mr C. Clarke's Careless, 19 dwts. 9 grs.; 

 Mr Bishop's Careless, 19 dwts. 1 gr. Best Pound — Mr Fretwell, 14 berries. 

 Second Pound — Mr W. Clarke, 15 berries. 



REVIEW. 



Home-Made Wines : how to make and keep them. With Observations on 

 Gathering and Preparing the Fruit, Fining, Bottling, and Storing. 

 By G. Vine. London : Groombridge & Sons. 



In a neat, compact, readable little book of forty-eight pages, the author tells us 

 much of an extremely useful character. A season when fruit of all kinds abounds 

 is just the time to bring out a manual treating on the manufacture of wines, when, 

 in many large gardens especially, and not a few small ones, there is often seen a 

 lamentable waste of fruit, that might and can be made into good wholesome 

 wines. "Considering," says the author in the introduction to this little book, 

 " the large number of fruits from which excellent wines may be made, and their 

 economy compared with the cheapest of foreign wines, it is remarkable that 

 home-made wines are not more common. Probably of those whose gardens pro- 

 duce abundance of rich fruits, not one "goodwife" in a hundred makes a bottle 

 of British wine, except the old-fashioned and wholesome elder that has been 

 known and drunk for generations. Pei-haps this neglect of our native fruits may 

 be accounted for by the want of a cheap treatise giving plain directions for the 

 manufacture of home-made wines. To supply this want is the object of the pre- 

 sent little work." 



Mr Robert Fenn, of Woodstock, Oxon. , has done good service from time to 

 time, in various of the gardening papers, in putting the question of wine manufac- 

 ture before the readers of these periodicals, and pressing it home as a matter of 

 social economics. More than that, he has frequently illustrated what he has 

 himself done in the way of producing good wines "that maketh glad the heart 

 of man," from Grapes, Rhubarb, Gooseberries, &c, by submitting the same to 

 the taste of juries at some of the leading flower-shows. We have tasted, by his 

 hospitable fireside, wines of excellent quality, all generous beverages, far supe- 

 rior to many of the cheaper foreign wines of the present day, which he was en- 

 abled to manufacture and bottle at the small cost of something like fivepence 

 three-farthings per bottle. What Mr Fenn has been able to do with his super- 

 abundance of fruit hundreds of others can do in like manner, and with results as 

 satisfactory in every respect. That all this waste of fruit should go on from year to 



