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grown in " hills," only such other plants as will stand 

 similar treatment can' be cultivated in the rows. 



In many places intermediate cultivation is restricted to 

 new plantatiolis, and to the first two years, and is dis- 

 continued later on as being injurious to the cropping of 

 the hops. However, no such injurious result need be feared 

 if the ground is well manured and properly worked; and, 

 given a sufficient supply of plant food and moisture, 

 intermediate cultivation may be continued as long as the 

 garden is kept under hops, without the latter crop suffering 

 any diminution. 



Of course, in the case of low-frame gardens, where the 

 dense shade caused by the hop plants would keep other 

 plants from thriving, intermediate cultivation cannot be 

 successfully carried on beyond the first year. 



The best plants for intermediate cultivation are hoed 

 crops and pulse, the latter being preferable because they 

 take less nitrogen from the soil, whereas the others, like 

 hops themselves, require a greater proportion of nitro- 

 genous food. Unfortunately, one finds turnips, carrots, 

 cabbages, turnip-cabbages, early potatoes, and sometimes 

 maize, gherkins, onions, pumpkins, etc., more frequently 

 grown in hop gardens than leguminous plants, of which 

 beans and peas should be the first to select. 



Life of a Hop Garden : StrBSEQUENT Ceopping. 



In the absence of reliable data nothing definite can be 

 stated as to the longevity of a hop stock. At all events 

 the plant is very long-lived, although the high reproductive 

 power of the underground parts is likely to cause erroneous 

 impressions to be formed on the subject. So far as the hop- 

 grower is concerned, however, the question is immaterial, 

 his interest in the matter being confined to the time the 



