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bine hop in form and were derived from this variety. Both are 

 pale in colour with thin petals. 



They are usually ready to pick after Bramlings and before the 

 Canterbury Whitebines. 



Canterbury Whitebine ; Farnham Whitebine. 



These two strains of hop, grown originally in the neighbour- 

 hood of Canterbury in Kent and around Farnham in Surrey 

 respectively, are apparently the same variety, no differences, so 

 far as botanical features are concerned, being noticeable. 



They take the first place among hops for quality and also 

 yield good crops on deep rich soils. They are, however, some- 

 what delicate in constitution. 



The ' bine ' is pale green, often slightly mottled with red streaks. 

 The strobiles are medium-sized, roundish-oval in shape, with 

 smooth thinnish ' petals ' which, when ripe, are a pale golden- 

 yellow colour. 



The former variety has several names : it is grown on the best 

 hop ground in East Kent. 



The Golding. — At the end of the i8th and beginning of the 19th 

 century a hop known as the Golding was largely grown. It was 

 stated by Marshall in 1798 to have been selected from the Canter- 

 bury Whitebine hop by a Mr Golding, living near Maidstone. The 

 true Golding hop is larger than the Canterbury Whitebine variety, 

 and grows more singly on the ' laterals ' : its flavour and lupulin- 

 content are excellent. The bine is shorter than that of the 

 Canterbury Whitebine, and much more spotted with red. 



At present the term Golding is often applied fraudulently to 

 many inferior varieties of hops. 



Mathon or Mathon White. — A variety originating or largely 

 grown first in the parish of Mathon, in Worcestershire. It ranks 

 practically equal in quality to the Canterbury Whitebine, which it 

 much resembles in form and colour of hop. 



Cooper's White. — ^An old Worcestershire variety very similar in 

 shape, colour, and texture of ' petal ' to the White's Early of Kent. 



It is less hardy than the Mathon. Both the above kinds 



