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Hops are diecious plants ; hence perhaps 

 it might be proper, though not practised, 

 to leave purposely some male plants in 

 every garden, that their farina might im- 

 pregnate the blossoms. The female plants 

 without their male attendants are not in 

 their natural state : hence we may suppose 

 the frequent failure of crop so incident to 

 hop-grounds ; no other growth, cultivated 

 by man, has such frequent and general 

 failures as hops. 



Two hop-gardens much injured by a 

 hail-storm, June 5, show now (September 

 2) a prodigious crop, and larger and fairer 

 hops than any in the parish. The owners 

 seem now to be convinced that the hail, 

 by beating off the tops of the binds, has 

 increased the side-shoots, and improved 

 the crop. Query. Therefore should not 

 the tops of hops be pinched off when the 

 binds are very gross, and strong ? 



Whitj:. 



