[Wine]

Second Annual Report presented by the Council to the Board of Agriculture

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1861.

Foolscap folio, 25 pages.

Sewn as issued; uncut edges slightly sunned; minimal foxing; essentially a fine copy.

Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 42 of 1861; the report covers the calendar year 1860. Contents include a densely-printed two-page 'Report by the Judges of the Vineyards' (E.B. Heyne, Alwin Seidel and J.W. Dardel), and an eight-page report by the Director of the Experimental Farm (Thomas Skilling). The five vineyards, competing for the 'Argus' Gold Prize Cup for the best cultivated vineyard, included Messrs. Castella and Anderson of Yering, and the Manager of Tabilk Vineyard, Goulburn.

Item #28425

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