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the smell of the flowers is soporific. A pillow filled with Hop 

 flowers will induce sleep, unattended with the bad effects of 

 soporifics which require to be taken internally. 



STACKING THE POLES. 



"The stripping and stacking of the poles succeed to the 

 operation of picking. The shoot or bind being stripped off, 

 such poles as are not decayed, are set up together in a conical 

 pile of three or four hundred, the centre of which is formed 

 by three stout poles bound together a few feet from their tops, 

 and their lower ends spread out. A flat stone, or piece of 

 board, should be placed under every pole to keep the moisture 

 from rising in the wood, which, if not prevented, will hasten 

 the decay of the poles about as fast as if they were in the 

 ground. Those who propose to raise Hops on a large scale, 

 should visit some of the Hop-growing districts in the northern 

 counties of New York, or other States, and examine the modes 

 of culture and kilns for drying. 



LEEK. POIRREAU. Allium porrum. 



VARIETIES. 



Scotch, or Flag. | Large London. 



This is a wholesome and useful herb, and is so hardy as to 

 endure the extremes of heat and cold without injury. The 

 seed may be sown in March, or early in April, in a bed of rich 

 earth, in drills about an inch deep, and a sufficient distance 

 apart to admit of a small hoe being worked between the rows, 

 allowing one ounce of seed for every three thousand plants that 

 may be required. 



If the ground be kept loose and clean around the plants, 

 they will be fit to transplant in June, or early in July, and 

 should be set out in good ground, in rows twelve inches asun- 

 der, and the plants five or six inches apart in the rows. They 



