ON COLONIAL WINES. 235 
There is another reason for establishing educational 
nurseries. There is to be in all probability an indus- 
trial school erected at the Experimental Farm, and in 
that event, a collection, such as I am advocating, would 
form an integral part of the instruction of the lads. 
The method of treating vine cuttings as cuttings and 
scions of the apple tree are managed, is simple enough, 
and would be of real value to the lads when apprenticed 
to vignerons. 
No inconsiderable portion of the following essay was 
drawn up for the Official Kecord of the late Exhibition 
held in Melbourne by the Eoyal Commissioners for the 
London International Exhibition of 1873; much of 
what constituted my direct investigation, was em- 
bodied in that essay on Colonial Wines. Still much 
more of importance to the wine interest of this Colony 
might have been added, not without a hope of 
benefiting the producer, the trader, and the consumer, 
had time, and the limited amount of money for the 
purpose of printing essays, been, as it should have 
been, in closer conformity with the importance of the 
interest concerned. 
At any rate, the money was not to be had, so that 
essays in more than one instance had to be either not 
written, or done at odd times, with little or no clerical 
assistance ; and when the time, during which they 
must be got ready for the printer, was necessarily 
limited. 
Now, I trust, these two matters will be kept in 
mind by the reader. Moreover, I have made no 
attempt at "fine writing/' but own to the plainest 
speaking and explaining. 
