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Fig 1. Branch of Staminate or Male Hop- Vine, 



Fig. 2. Branch of a Pistillate or Female Hop- Vine. 



The above cuts are drawn on a reduced scale, but a single flower of the male vine is shown at the left-hand 

 corner of the plate, of natural size. 



CULTIVATION" OF HOPS. 



Choon soil for the hop of rottenest mould, 

 Well doonged and wroughtas a garden plot should; 

 Not far from the water (but not overflowne ;) 

 This lesson well noted, is meet to be knowne. 



The sun in the South, or else Southlie and "West, 

 Is joy to the hop as welcomed ghost ; 

 But wind in the North, or else Northerly East, 

 To hop is as ill as fray in a feast. 



Thus wrote Thomas Tusser, Esq., more than 

 three hundred years ago, in his celebrated 

 "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry." 

 Notwithstanding the quaintness of his style, it 

 will be seen that his lines are full of hints as 

 to the soil, manure, location, exposure, &c., 

 adapted to the growth of the hop. 



For the Weekly Farmer, of February 16, 

 we prepared an article on the Cultivation of 

 Hops, which was published without any illus- 

 trations. In consequence of the frequent re- 

 quests which have been made for such illus- 

 trations, and for further information upon the 

 subject, we have obtained permission to copy 

 from a cheap, but valuable work entitled Hop 

 Culture, published by Orange Judd & Co., of 

 New York, a series of cuts which illustrate 



the usual modes of cultivating the hop in this 

 country, and of prepaiing it for market. 



The New American Cyclopaedia describes 

 the hop as "a vine with a perennial root from 

 which spring up numerous annual shoots, 

 forming slender flexible stems, angular and 

 rough to the touch. These climb spirally to 

 the height of twenty or thirty feet. The leaves 

 are opposite, on long winding petioles ; the 

 smaller ones heart-shaped, the larger three or 

 five lobed. It is found wild both in America and 

 Europe. The flowers of the male plant (Fig. 1,) 

 have a calyx of five leaves and no corolla ; those 

 of the female plant (Fig. 2,) have for their calj"x 

 the scales of an ament, each two-flowered, 

 styles two, seed one. They form a foliaceous 

 cone or strobile, called also catkin, for the , 

 sake of which alone the plant is cultivated. 

 The catkins consist of the scales, imts, and 

 lupuline grains or glands. Tho scales are 

 bracts enclosing the nuts which are small and 

 hard. They are covered at their base with an 

 aromatic resinous substance of yellowish color 

 known as lupuline. This constitutes about 



