lo Sept., 1910.] 



Spring Frosts. 



597 



Close Seasons for Fish. 

 Black Fish. — From ist September to 

 15th December in each year (both 

 dates inclusive). 



The whole year for all less 

 than 9 inches in length, 

 and for Female Cray- 

 Cravfish fish from the ist June to 



the 30th November (both 

 dates inclusive in each 

 vear). 



'From i^th September to 

 15th November (both 

 days inclusive) in the 

 English - River Yarra, from the 

 Roach Johnston-street Bridge 



to the place known as 

 Dight's Falls. 



English 

 Trout 



Gippslam 

 Perch 



Murray 

 Bream 



Murray 

 Perch 



Murray 

 Cod' 



(¥rom the ist May to the 

 31st August in each year 

 [ (both dates inclusive). 



From ist August to the 

 3otli November in each 

 vear (both dates inclu- 

 tiive). 



From the ist October to 

 the 30th November in 

 each fear (both dates in- 

 clusive). 



Barracouta 



Blackfish 



Bream 



Bream, Silver 



Butter fisli .. 



Cat fish 



Crayfish — leng 



Flathead 



Flounder 



Garfish 



Grayling or V; 



Ling 



Luderick 



Mackerel 



Mullet 



Murray Cod .. 



Murray Perch 



Perch 



Perch English 



Pike 



Minimum Weights of Fish. 



Red Mullet ... 

 Rock Cod ... 

 Rough or Rough v 

 Salmon Trout 



th 



rra Herrinf 



4 oz. 



4 » 



5 .. 



5 .. 

 4 >. 



4." 

 g ins. 



4 oz. 



6 ,, 



6 ,, 



5 >3 



2 ,, 

 li lbs. 

 8 oz. 



5 >. 

 4 ,, 



6 „ 



Salmon, California 

 Salmon, English 

 Sand Mullet or Poddies 

 Schnapper 



Silver fish or Silver Perch 

 Skipjack 

 Snook 

 Sole 



Stranger 



Travale or Trevalla ... 

 Trout of all kinds, not indi- 

 genous to Victoria ... 

 Trumpeter 

 Whiting 

 Whiting, Sand 

 Yellow Tail 



3 lbs. 



SPRING FROSTS. 



Some Reminders and a Recent Development. 

 F. de Casiella, Government Viticulturist. 



Our mild climate render.s us safe from the severe winter frosts which, 

 in many less favoured climates, may even in midwinter kill vines outright. 

 At 15 deg. C, =5 deg. F., vines suffer severely ; considerably less intense cold 

 may do damage to young grafted vines unless the union be protected by a 

 mound of earth. In such countries as Bessarabia (Southern Russia) intense 

 winter cold necessitates complete burial of the whole vine in order to 

 protect it; this is, in fact, one of the cultural peculiarities of the region. 

 Even in France, winter burial is u.sual in the coldest parts, such as Cham- 

 pagne, which is situated at the northern limit of the vine-growing climatic 

 zone. 



In Victoria, it is only spring frosts that we need consider. Serious 

 damage is occasionally caused by these, especially in the more inland dis- 

 tricts where the regularizing influence of the sea is no longer felt, and 



