GRAPE CULTURE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 819, 16 November 1905, Page 25

GRAPE CULTURE.

The phenomenal price of 5s 5d per pound 'for Auckland-grown grapes, which was recently obtained in Wellington, will, no doubt/ result in greater interest being taken in the proper cultivation of this luscious fruit. The grapes which brought the above-named price came from the Government experimental vinery, at Birkenhead of which Mr A. M. Wilson is the owner. Signor Bragato, Government Viticulturist, has been carrying out experiments there in the forcing of early grapes. The consignment sent to Wellington consisted of six cases. The owner states that in addition to being the earliest, the present is the finest and heaviest crop he has ever’ had in thevinery. Another experimental station has been established at Aratahi, near Hastings. Signor Bragato has been there recently on a tour of inspection, and he intends making a tour of the South Island, and the East and West, Coasts of this island as far as New Plymouth, to demonstrate to growers the results to be achieved by the cultivation of table grapes underglass.