THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
August 1st, 1832. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ARTICLE I.—SOME PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE CULTIVATION 
OF THE VINE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.— By J. T. 
I 
Though the climate and soil of New South Wales appears so well 
suited to the grape, the progress that might have been expected, has 
by no means been made in the culture of the Vine in that country. 
Some grapes are raised however of a good quality for the table, and 
in a few instances, wine has been made, but to a very limited extent; 
and, as far as I have heard, of rather an inferior quality. One of the 
principal difficulties the cultivator has to contend with is the cold 
south-westerly winds, which often prevail in the spring after the vine 
has begun to shoot; and which are of the nature of our north-easterly 
winds; blowing over the ice of the south pole, as ours do over the 
north. These winds, therefore, greatly injure the young shoots of the 
vines. A. Mc’Leay, Esq. the colonial secretary, has instituted a set 
of experiments, which, it is hoped, will lead to the overcoming this 
evil. He has planted all the varieties of the vine, which he could 
obtain, in the same exposure, and in every respect under the same 
circumstances, the result has been that about ten varieties have been 
found much hardier than the other sorts; and which have suffered 
very little from the cold winds of their last spring. A writer in the 
Sydney Gazette is so sanguine as to think that, from these hardy 
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