West Cumberland News November 21st 1931 The Vineyards of Maryport

The Vineyards of Maryport

While theologically Maryport is considered a corner of God’s vineyard, kindly well wishers sending flowers and fruit have convinced “Ewanrigg” that horticultural it is a garden city and a vineyard.     The Maryport householder may not dwell under the shade of his own fig tree and vine but the vine is there, in the backyard or house garden, protected by glass and heated by coal, and growing rich luscious fruit. Some of the flowers cultivated are supreme and show chrysanthemums from Netherton as big as soup plates vie in their bronze, purple and other shades with rich and vividly colored dahlias, a flower that requires exceptional care and attention to be grown successfully in the Cumberland climate.     The extent to which the grape is grown by local people has been something of a surprise and the quality of the local production of that ideal blood maker and purifier leaves one wondering where the imported foreign grapes would be if the present tendency for local vine cultivation as  a hobby was to spread and accelerate and be placed on a semi commercial basis.     It is however, satisfactory to record that vine cultivation is spreading in Maryport, and the grapes produced are second to none.

 

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