924 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 
successes. The Macarthurs selected altogether forty of the 
choicest varieties for culture at Camden Park, and of these twenty 
were finally retained as good for wine-making. The expansion of 
wine culture dates from 1831, when Mr. James Busby distributed 
cuttings and so interested many settlers in the vine. The vine- 
yard planted on Mr. Busby’s Kirkton Estate is now the property 
of Mr. James Kelman. In 1832 Mr. James King established a 
vineyard at Irrawang, where the Williams joins the Hunter 
River. In 1837 Mons. D. J. Joubert established a vineyard, 
having brought from France a valuable collection of the best sort 
of the vines of Medoc, celebrated for clarets. In 1840 Mr. 
William Macarthur imported vine cuttings from the famous vine- 
yards of the Rhine, and planted them at Camden Park. In 1844 
some German vine-dressers came to the Colony, via New Zealand, 
and added a much-needed element of technical skill. In 1843 
the late Dr. H. J. Lindeman planted a vineyard on the Cawarra 
Estate, Paterson River. In 1846 the late Mr. John Wyndham 
established the Dalwood vineyard on the Upper Hunter. During 
the same year Mr. William Wyndham planted vines at Bukkulla, 
on the M‘Intyre River, near Inverell of to-day. In 1849 Messrs. 
G. T and J. B. Carmichael planted a vineyard at Porphory, near 
Seaham, on the Williams River. During the forties vine culture 
extended in the south-west of the Colony. The late Hon. E. D. 
Ogilvie planted the Merton Vineyard, on the Murray, in 1840, 
The late Mr. John Smith, of Kyandra, obtained vine cuttings, 
and having proved the suitability of his soil, sent to Germany in 
1844 for vines and vine-dressers, and the journey of the latter 
overland from Sydney was no smal] undertaking. On expiry of 
their engagement with Mr. Smith, Messrs. Schuback, Fraunfelder, 
and Ran rented 10 acres from Messes. Crisp, on the Murray, near 
Albury, on an improving lease, and the breaking out of the gold 
boom of the “fifties gave them an exceptional profit for their 
wines, enabling them to purchase land at Albury and plant vine- 
yards, and their suecess led to many other Germans coming out. 
The late Mr. J. M. Sangar planted a vineyard at Corowa, on the 
Murray, 40 miles from Albury, which was eventually purchased 
by Messrs. H. J. Lindeman & Co., who also acquired the adjoining 
vineyard founded by the late Mrs. Bladen Neill. So suitable 
was the soil and climate of the Murray deemed for wine culture 
that a large vineyard was established near Albury in 1861 by the 
Murray Vineyard Company, and in time was purchased by the 
late Mr. J. T. Fallon, and is now carried on by his brother. 
Mention must be made of Ettamogah, near Albury, where the ex- 
Surveyor-General, Mr. P. F. Adams, planted a vineyard that has 
attained the highest reputation. In 1875, when Mr. Adams ceased 
to reside at Albury, it passed into the hands of Messrs. Harbottle, 
Alsop, & Co., and under the management of Captain Lankester. 
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