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and the gardens in low-lying, foggy situations, the high 

 frame cannot well be dispensed with. Of course, in order 

 to avoid the necessity of making the frames very high, 

 recourse may be had to training on the slope, taking care, 

 however, that the angle of the training wires is not smaller 

 than 50° ; and in reality it should not fall below 60°. Lower 

 frames can be recommended for districts where high winds 

 are prevalent, as also for warm climates, poor sandy soils 

 and high situations, provided the variety of hop is selected 

 accordingly. The disadvantages of horizontal training can 

 be rendered less apparent in steep gardens by running the 

 wires up and down the line of greatest slope and. training the 

 bines up-hill. 



It is thus evident that no one system of frame is, or can 

 he, equally suitable under all circumstances, owing to the 

 variable conditions of plant growth and nature of soil. The 

 reason for the wide divergence in opinions on one and the 

 , same type of frame is often due to a fault, by no means 

 "uncommon in agricultural circles, namely, the generalising 

 of results obtained under a definite set of conditions ; that is 

 to say, applying them to other conditions without sufficiently 

 taking to heart that one man's meat may be another man's 

 poison. 



If, however, the hop-grower constantly keeps in view all 

 the factors bearing on the case, and really appreciates that 

 local conditions must decide the type of frame to be chosen — 

 that is to say, if he specialises — then his proceedings will be 

 certainly successful. ' 



Although the medium size frames have been just 

 mentioned as the best, nothing more is implied in that 

 statement than that the localities to which this type of 

 frame is best adapted are of more frequent occurrence than 

 those for which the very high or very low systems are 

 preferable. 



