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It is difficult to obtain the wines pure except at prices 
which place them beyond the reach of ordinary consumers ; 
and seeing that perhaps five times the quantity of port 
and sherry is drunk that is grown, it is pretty clear that 
the process of adulteration is extensively carried on. ‘The 
Hamburg merchants are the most clever concocters of 
artificial wine, and they have found it a growing and pro- 
fitable trade to provide the middle classes of England with 
these imaginary substitutes for the vintages of Xeres and 
Alto Douro. But ‘it is rather absurd for Austratians to 
import such articles at a great expense, and to pay a high 
duty on them, when wine more palatable, more wholesome, 
and more suited to the climate, can be produced from its 
own soil ata cheaper rate. It will be time enough to 
manufacture wines when the world cannot grow any more; 
but at present, with unlimited capacity for growing, at 
least in Australia, we need not condemn ourselves to drink 
artificial compounds. 
‘As our local wines become more plentiful they will 
become cheaper, and as they get cheaper they will come 
more into use, and supersede the imported malt liquors. 
This is already the case in South Australia, where more 
wine is produced in proportion to the population than in 
any of the other colonies, and where the import of beer has 
been sensibly affected. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE 
OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENUS CIN- 
CHONA.* 
BY JOHN ELIOT HOWARD, F.LS. 
HE writer approaches the consideration of the Cin- 
_ chonaceous plants rather more from a practical than 
from a technically botanical point of view, and thinks that 
much remains yet to be done by careful study of the plants 
themselves, to reduce Botanical terms to harmony with 
* Abstract of a paper read at a meeting of the International 
Botanical Congress, and prepared by the author for the ‘‘ Pharma- 
ceutical Journal.” 
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