ON COLONIAL WINES. 237 
^ Call the whole arrangement by the Spanish name 
"Alameda," an institution everywhere in full force in 
Spanish towns and cities, and found to be indis- 
pensable to the health and comfort of the people. 
In 1867, I concluded my first essay on Colonial 
Wine with the following remarks, which I think may 
be appropriately introduced in reference to the present 
subject : — 
f< In the interest, then, of health and morality, and 
cheerful and happy homes, may I be pardoned for 
recording my heartfelt wish that I may live to see 
the time, when even the humblest labourer, at the close 
of his hot day's toil, will stroll into our fine parks and 
public gardens, and there, with his happy family around 
him, enjoy his hour of relaxation, and drink his bottle 
of wholesome wine at the cost of a few pence, without 
either the reproach of extravagance, or the danger of 
intoxication." 
In the following pages will be found an account 
of such studies and analyses of colonial wines as I 
have been able to make during the last five or six 
years, which is now thrown out as a very small con- 
tribution to our common fund of information concern- 
ing this interesting and valuable new industry. I 
venture to call it, still, a « new industry," for the colony 
has hardly yet been prospected fully as to its whole 
capabilities for yielding wines ; while the vines, best 
suited to each locality, are by no means clearly ascer- 
tained, and while the systems of making and maturing 
wine must for some time longer be experimental rather 
than fixed ; as will be readily understood when it is 
remembered that between the Barrabool Hills and the 
valley of the Murray, Victoria possesses every variety 
