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1 9 10), but, on the other hand, it improves more than it on maturation, and 

 possesses more colour and body, for, as can easily be imagined, with the 

 extraordinarily heavy crops mentioned above, these are qualities which are 

 apt to be found wanting. When grown on poorer soil it enters into the 

 composition of some choicer wines, notably those of Banyouls and Collioure 

 in Roussillon. 



The vine it.self is a vigorous, .semi-erect grower, easily recognised by 

 its very large light-green leaves deeply indented, as shown in the photo- 

 graph, which is made up of two half leaves in order to compare upper 

 and under surfaces and to show the flakes of cotton present on the latter. 

 A characteristic 

 feature of these 

 leaves, which is 

 also shown, in 

 their goffered or 

 bulgy appear- 

 ance, especially 

 near the centre. 

 The vine may 

 also be recog- 

 nised by its splen- 

 did autumnal 

 tints, which are 

 rather a brilliant 

 rose colour than 

 the deep vinous 

 red of several 

 other sorts. 



This variety 

 does not appear 

 to have been tried 

 separately, in 

 spite of the fre- 

 quency with 

 which it is met 

 with near Ruth- 

 erglen. In most 

 of the vineyards 

 of that district 

 one finds blocks 

 of what are called 

 Roussillon.* 

 These vary a 



good deal from one vineyard to another, but are usually comprised of a 

 number of different varieties, amongst which one almost always finds 

 Carignane in fairly large proportion. Sometimes, the.se mixed blocks 

 are known as Grenache, an even more misleading error. 



Carignane is a variety which, in my opinion, has in the past been un- 

 duly neglected in northern Victoria. In Algiers, where the climate is very 

 similar to ours, it is cultivated on a very large scale, as it also is in nor- 

 thern Spain, of which country it is a native. Its French name is derived 



* Roussillon is the name (f one of the old French Proviiicrs— what is now the Department of Pyrenee- 

 orientales. Tliere is no vine of that name. 



LEAF OF CARIGNANE. 



Left half, upiier surface. Right half, lower surface. 



One-third natural size. 



