■220 HOPS. 



thin wooden rod reaching up to the loWer wire and fastened 

 thereto with a lapping of wire. From the point of inter- 

 section a cord is run up to the first or second length in the 

 head wire, according to the height the plant is allowed to 

 attain; and is there fastened by a hook and eye. The bine 

 will grow up the thin rods without any support as far as the 

 lower wire) and is then trained horizontally until the position 

 of the next plant is reached, whereupon it climbs of its own 

 ■accord "up the slanting stiring. When the strings are con- 

 nected with the nearest length of head wire (Fig. 59) the total 

 training height of the frame is 20| feet, but this is increased 

 to 24 feet if the junction is made at the eye of the second 

 length away ; in this event, however, the training angle is 

 rather less than 45°. 



Picking is a simple matter, the strings being unhooked 

 from the head wires, and the bine laid over the lower vnre, 

 where it can be picked even by children, without any need 

 for ladders or benches. 



The Haupt system has been improved and utilised for 

 free-growing hops by Zelinka,'^ who uses a 20-foot frame, the 

 lower wire, to which the bine is led by fixed vertical supports, 

 being 80 inches high, thus enabling the garden to be worked 

 by horse implements. 



Given an angle of 60° for the training wires, the plants 

 can be grown to a height of 33 feet with this frame. Contrary 

 to the usual practice, Zelinka mounts the head wires across 

 the rows, so that the plants can be trained at the desired 

 angle and distributed alternately, right and left, just as if two 

 rows of longitudinal wires were available. To facilitate pick- 

 ing the training wires can be unhooked from the top wire 

 and laid over the lower row, and after being denuded of cones 

 the bines are left where they are till they die down naturally. 



' E. Zelinka, " Die Oult«r des Hopfens auf Prahtgerusten," Wiener landw. 

 Zeitung, 1896. 



