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the success attained is, so to speak, negative from the nature 

 of the case, most of the so-called varieties being nothing 

 more than local modifications. 



Strictly speaking, only three types exhibiting morpho- 

 logical differences are known, viz. : — 



1. Eed hops ; 



2. Green hops ; and the intermediate 



3. Pale green hops. 



(1) Bed Hops. 



The members of this variety, which constitute the early 

 and most of the middle-early ripening sorts, begin to grow 

 early in the spring, the first shoots appearing at the 

 beginning of Apnl. They are of a reddish violet colour, and 

 the bine remains a red brown during the whole of its life. 

 The leaves are dark green, and have shorter stalks than 

 those of the green hops. The blossom appears about the 

 third week in July, and the individual flowers show long, 

 j)rotruding, white stigmata, the growth of the cones being 

 strongest at the end of the month. The bracts and 

 bracteoles, and thus the entire flowers, increase in size very 

 rapidly, the colour changing at the same tijqje to a yellowish 

 green shade. Eipening commences in the second half of 

 August. The cones are closed, about 1| to 1| inch long 

 and I inch in diameter, and are pale yellow with a reddish 

 tinge ; the golden yellow lupulin granules are present in 

 large numbers and the cones are greasy to the touch. 

 Most red hops exhibit a fine and aromatic odour, the most 

 celebrated being those grown in the districts of Spalt and 

 Saaz, English and American red varieties being inferior to 

 these in point of aroma. Though a high yield is not to be 

 expected from hops of such excellent quality, they are 

 nevertheless more profitable than the more productive green 

 hops, because of the higher prices they command. In good 



