HOP CULTURE.* 



A PAPES READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN AGRICaLTURAL ASSOCIATION, MAY, 1846, BY 



ANDREW H. GREEN, Esa., 



COKRESPONDING SECEETAEY OF THE ASSOCIATION, ETC., ETC. 



The treatise which has suggested this paper is entitled " An Exposition of the Cultiue of 

 Hops, as the same is practised by Baron Maximilian Von Speck-Sternburg, on his estate at St, 

 Veit, near Landshut, in Upper Bavaria, Leipsic, 1840 ; " it was received a short time since by the 

 Association, accompanied with a very pohte letter from its intelligent author, and refereed by the 

 Association to me for an opinion as to its value. As there is much in this work that is pecu- 

 liarly adapted to the country for which it was written ; it will, perhaps, be mmecessary to occupy the 

 Association in hearing an entire translation of it. I shall, therefore, select only the portions valuable 

 to our agriculturists and present with them in this communication such other useful information 

 on the subject as I have been able to collect from reliable sources. 



The Hop {Humtdus Lupulus) is a slender climbing plant with fibrous pereimial root and 

 annual twining stem ; it is diaecious, that is, some of the individuals are male and some female, each 

 of which have respectively flowers of different construction ; the male or staminiferous flowers, which 

 grow on the stalk quite distinct from the female flower, prepare the pollen, or fertilizing dust, and 

 afterwards wither away when the dust has escaped from the anthers and been committed to the 

 air to be conveyed to the female flowers, which are in the form of strobili, or cones, consisting of 

 scales, havmg at their base the germ of the future seed ; the male plants are usually rejected in 

 cultivation. There is but one species, having a number of varieties — the green bind, white bind and 



* Darstellung des Hopfenbaiiea wie derselbe nach Anordnung des FREinEREN Max. von SrECK-STEKSBCKG Ordensritter, 

 Mitgleid mehrer gelehrten Geselschaften und Ritterguterbesitzer, auf seinem Gute St. Veit bei Landshut in Oberbayem betrieben 

 wild. Leipzig, 1840. 



