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Item Seminar on the production, management and marketing of berryfruit(Lincoln College. Department of Horticulture, Landscape and Parks., 1971) Thiele, G. F.The papers presented in this bulletin were delivered during a two day course for berryfruit growers preceding the annual conference of Growers' Federation and at a production and management field day Research Area, Lincoln College, the following day.Item The Wanganui River: A recreation survey(Lincoln College. Department of Horticulture, Landscape and Parks., 1980) Devlin, P. J.; Hoskyn, M. L.; Simmons, D. G.This Report is a joint undertaking between Lincoln College and the Wanganui River Scenic Board. Its principal objective is to provide user information which in conjunction with other essential resource information will offer a substantive basis for management planning. As such, this report which looks at users, their motivations, characteristics, satisfactions and management preferences, may be unique in such a planning ventureItem Introduction to floriculture(Lincoln College. Department of Horticulture, Landscape and Parks., 1980) Stevens, R. B.This bulletin is to provide a basic understanding of the principles and practices of commercial flower production, from which further studies can be undertaken as required. A complete study of floriculture is beyond the objectives and resources of this course because of the complexity of the flowering process and its control in plants. These notes are to be supplemented by lectures, slides, demonstrations and field studies.Item Recreational users in Kaimanawa and Kaweka Forest Parks(Lincoln College. Department of Horticulture, Landscape and Parks., 1983) Groome, Kathryn; Simmons, David G.; Clarke, Lester D.This research has been undertaken under contract to the New Zealand Forest Service. It has arisen from a major study of recreational hunting in the Central North Island (Groome, Simmons, Clark, 1983). A significant data base on Forest Park Users in the Kaimanawa/Kaweka region was assembled for the recreational hunting study. While the principal purpose of that data was to explore the compatibility of a Recreational Hunting Area with existing uses of the Forest Parks, the comprehensiveness of, and response to the surveys suggested that further analysis would also be useful to management. The aim of this report, then, is to separately describe key recreational user groups within the Kaimanawa and Kaweka Forest Parks. It is envisaged that this will have direct benefit to planning and help determine promotional activity by describing recreational preference and participation behaviour of park users.Item The grape experiments at Lincoln College(Lincoln College. Department of Horticulture, Landscape and Parks., 1984) Jackson, D. I.In 1973 a small area of grapes was planted to evaluate the potential of Canterbury as a grape-growing district. At that stage, there was no significant commercial production of grapes in the South Island and it was widely believed that temperatures in the area were too cold. After a period of two to three years, some of the grapes had cropped, the sugar acid levels were much better than expected, and a small amount of wine was made which was quite acceptable. Also, by this stage, Montana Wines had planted a commercial area in Marlborough and interest in the South as a new district was increasing. As a result, the Lincoln College vineyard was extended to include more cultivars and a training trial was established. Since then, the grapes and wines have continued to give encouraging results and commercial production of wine in Canterbury has begun. The trials have continued to emphasise cultivar assessment and training methods, but some physiological studies are being done by staff and by post-graduate students. A small wine-making laboratory has been made and a technique of microvinification adopted which is used in the grape assessment. A few limited trials in winemaking techniques have been carried out. This bulletin is a progress report on the trials that have been done up until June 1984.