CULTURE AND PREPARATION OF HEMP IN EUROPE. 338 
Dr. Jameson, in the above letter, observes, with regard to the 
so-called Kote Kangra Hemp, that he himself had brought it to 
Mr. Macleod’s notice, and that it was not produced in the 
Kangra district, but in Kooloo and Lahoul, which are a little 
farther in the interior. ; 
Before concluding, we have to detail the method of culti- 
vating and preparing Hemp in Europe, in order to contrast 
them with the practice of the East, and for the information of 
those who may wish to cultivate it in this country. We are 
indebted for the directions to some of the most approved 
writers on the subject, and have contrasted them with those of 
Mr. Rowlandson in his paper in vol. x of the ‘ Journ. of the 
Royal Agricultural Society.’ 
CULTURE AND PREPARATION OF HEMP IN EUROPE. 
Hemp being one of the few plants cultivated in Europe, 
which has the male and female flowers in different plants, 
affords some anomalies in its culture, especially that of having 
two harvests in the same crop. In some older works the male 
is frequently named the female plant, and vice versa. 
Soil.—The soil in which Hemp thrives, is a deep, rich, moist soil, five or 
six inches deep; besides the alluvial, where sand and clay are intimately 
mixed, and having the above characteristics, also the friable loams, which 
contain much vegetable matter. All should contain a fair portion of sand, 
as this keeps the soil open and light for the roots to spread in. Hemp 
thrives well in Holland and Lincolnshire. Stiff, cold clays are unsuitable, 
for even if the plant should grow well, it is not easy to pull it, “for when 
strong clay becomes saturated with rain, the soil runs together, and on dry- 
ing sets as hard as a pavement.” If the soil be over-rich, the plant grows 
too luxuriantly, and produces a coarse but strong fibre. But Hemp is 
sometimes sown in such soils to meliorate them for the cereals, which would 
otherwise run too much to straw. But as many soils are too poor, they 
require to be raised to a suitable state by the addition of manure; and with 
this, it is said that Hemp may be grown in the same soil for many years. 
When a fine quality of fibre is required, of course, only the most suitable 
soil should be selected, or that in which the growth of the plant is neither 
excessive nor stunted. In Italy, Hemp is sown in their best lands, which are 
rich and strong loams, and made fine and friable. In Romagna, where the 
best Hemp is produced, they say it may be grown anywhere with manure. 
In the Himalayas, the Author has seen the Hemp growing most luxuriantly 
in the neighbourhood of bullock-sheds, and producing fibre of great strength. 
In India, spots near the habitations of natives are the best adapted for the 
growth of Hemp; but in these they generally grow Tobacco. At Soonamooky 
it grew luxuriantly in sand, which was manured with stable-dung. Hence, 
Hemp grown in the plains will be dearer than the other fibres. 
Culture and Manure.—But the richness of the soil, and the quantity of ma- 
nure required, must vary, not only according to the nature of the soil and its re- 
