Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 069

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I think Mr W. Wilson, was of opinion in the early and middle fifties, that grapes would not be a successful crop in Canterbury. Some years after, however, he built the largest glasshouse then existing, and put in vines on his Ferry Road Nursery Section. The man, I think, who went in most largely for glasshouses was a young man named Lord, on the Opawa Heathcote road towards the valley. He commenced in a small way, hawking his cucumbers in a basket, getting good prices, but he soon enlarged his houses and went into grapes &c.