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in December, and soon throw up luxuriant shoots, which 

 find a ready sale as vegetables. 



Another small source of income is the sale of cuttings 

 for propagation, the price of which ranges from 168. to 

 24s. per 1,000. 



The quantity of hop cones consumed in the preparation 

 of liqueurs and for the extraction of lupulin for medicinal 

 purposes is comparatively insignificant, as would also be 

 the proposed utilisation of bine for the extraction of a 

 brownish red pigment mentioned by Stamm ; and these 

 uses are merely referred to for the sake of completeness. 



A special subsidiary industry, capable under certain 

 circumstances of association with hop cultivation, is the 

 growing of certain economic plants between the rows. 

 The advantages of this method of utilising the intermediate 

 free space have been largely contested. Undoubtedly the 

 practice leads to the removal of large amounts of water 

 and plant food from the soil ; and as the latter can be more 

 readily replaced than the water it is evidently advisable not 

 to attempt intermediate cropping in hop gardens on light, 

 dry soils unless irrigation is, or can be, practised. On the 

 other hand, in rich, well-manured soils not subject to water 

 famine intermediate fruit cultivation may be practised, 

 provided there are no special circumstances militating 

 against it ; in fact, in poor hop years a positive result will 

 almost invariably be obtainable from this source. 



Intermediate cultivation is chiefly advisable where the 

 area under hops is small, and as the grower and his 

 family attend to the work personally, and hand labour is 

 the rule, plants can be grown both between the hop stocks 

 in the rows and in the alleys. In large plantations, how- 

 ever, where team work is necessarily employed to reduce 

 the labour bill, intermediate, cultivation must be confined 

 to between the stocks. Furthermore, where the hops are 



