VINE CULTURE.
The Government work upon phylloxera and other, diseases of the vine which has lately been ( published contains a great amount of very interesting and very instructive matter, and has been compiled with a diligence and oare that reflects great credit upon the New Zealand f Department of Agriculture. . At the same time it is but too well known that no amount qf information' afforded to our vinegrowere will , ever be sufficient inducement for them to get jrid.of ,tbe phylloxera, if it is true that it is . already her s e._ That Jfche pest ,is lpoated iuNew! -Zealand there oan be no. doubt~at sill events' there -can- be none that' it' waa'aeenbotn" in' Auckland and to the ndrtb of that province — and, once established it is not to be supposed ,that it; bas, vanished -without any steps Having' been,taken,to.expelit< Therefore it is to be qoped that now the; Government are in posses* Btwn'iofB t wn'iof all, .available information upon the' •$P*?fy*'fflifa will oawj; on ; their good work, > "^^'Pr^lPlgK-noWi rfar. $&JBptiMa, SP«3*d ana tnen .adopting some reasonable measures ■of aa Uttle^of a*ti '.dppressiy of Qa'tuia >s possible, .for its suppresßiob,-'a4a'foi'Je6uMfaf the" future . interests ,of{.vinegrowerß.V. [ lt xs'HotWjnuch' 'a r matter of , importance what grape"sare grown f»w / .aswhatniay,Jbe the future' pYdsp^ots of ew^ajand aaa.,ivine'(?rowing: country ' that ! M.<? 3 1?W lOonajdeKajtloa, ;and.>hawflver"imi^ ,ppr,tt«at! rtjiß; jtp j Qo t aW]4pfftrmft|ion- J )iiDon.ipbyl> wllnot ria us"o{-t(ie. -jpeAt now, or/ secure ub frjbm^iW'aVt^ks ih^tH'e fputfl. Nothing- obnld^ \ tie traer^moredVer.'than a seh^nce^irhiDh may be quoted here from •Bfi'tf' i ot < Mr''liQberfj. I Creighton's letters to the New Zealah'a De'p4rtjpftflnt cif Agrionlture;-^" Should 'the ~New'Ze&* land GpF4tnmerit deijifle taprom'ote'vUicuUure ,afl a a iljshall be pleased to ,^rhat personaUssiatftnco.l can-tojimke jß^kJßWmw*, ??| nothing D^ajjiicaiLsem. be iMitilf wahted-moief tb;s(ri s iU etsef p Dhyiloxer&-reßiatitfg;vines, flS^plaoed' aa to" b'd ajjulahle io vinegrowers; '^present aMd inle&dingjathrpflghQut thekcolony,<and als"tf f BoflQo strict inqwy into the_«ta,te of; the pest 4n and to itb nort^i ,of Auokland,^nd in :> other buspeoted districts, Vu6sqboi7Xß, .
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Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 5
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326VINE CULTURE. Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 5
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