ON COLONIAL WINES. 
By J. J. Bleasdale, D.D. 
Having been requested by the Council of the 
Acclimatisation and Zoological 'Society of Victoria 
to contribute to their transactions a paper on the 
Wines of these Colonies, but chiefly on our Victorian 
Kinds, I have accepted the honor with pleasure, the 
more so because I firmly believe that every means 
ought to be used to make the nature of this industry 
and the character of the wine as universally known as 
possible. 
Whether the present generation will witness the 
full development of the wine interest in all its leading 
branches or not, mnst rest mainly with itself; but 
that it will one day equal if not surpass, as a source of 
national wealth, any other needs not a prophet to 
foretell _ Much yet remains to be done for it, and I 
take this opportunity to point ont to the Council 
of the Society, that they have it now in their power 
to render champion service in forwarding the vineyard 
interest. Every facility for accomplishing a really 
great and beneficial work is at the present time at 
their very doors. The grounds of the Society are 
quite good enough for the work :-wh ere shelter will 
be needed it can be easily created ;-and to supplement 
the work in the Society's gronnds, there is plenty of 
fenced and sheltered places at the experimental farm • 
so that there might be established at once at a cost of 
