Tlie Cultivation of Hops. 
729 = 463 
fi the most durable poles, and are chiefly grown in the planta- 
tiis. Ash, chestnut, maple, hazel, beech, alder, birch, willow, 
a-, oak poles are yielded indiscriminately by the old woods. 
irny fir poles are imported from Belgium and Norway and 
wie high prices. The practice of dipping about 2 feet of the Creosofing 
s of hop-poles in creosote is now almost universal. This hop-poles. 
ves them last very much longer, especially the common sorts, 
3i 1 as alder, beech, birch, willow, and hazel. They are put 
ii) iron tanks filled with creosote heated to about 170° Fahr. 
ai allowed to remain for twenty-four hours.* From 50Z. to 80Z. 
is je first cost of supplying an acre of land planted with Gold- 
irhops, and from 35/. to 65Z. per acre in the case of other 
sc s of hops. About 6 per cent, of the large poles that have 
b(i duly creosoted require renewal each year, and 9 per cent. Cost of poles 
of he smaller poles, taking an average of the various sorts and l'-"^ 
seons.f The system of putting upright poles to hop-plants 
CO monly prevails in this country. Several other methods, how- 
ev, are adopted to a small extent in various districts. Among The Vinery 
the, the "Vinery " system is perhaps the best, which consists '""j-^"*^ °^ 
of )lacing two permanent, creosoted, upright poles to each hill, 
toihich movable poles are fastened in the manner shown in 
th illustration appended, Fig. 2. 
Fig. 2. — Mr. Coleys Vinery System of Poling Hops. 
r. Farmar, of Tenbury, and Mr. Bomford, of Evesham, VYor- System of 
ce.^r, have patented systems of training hop-plants upon vertical training upon 
wires. 
ee account of process of creosoting hop-poles in the ' Journal of the Eoyal 
ultural Society,' vol. 2nd series, p. 345, b}' which it is shown that the 
; in poles effected by creosoting them is from 40 to 45 per cent. 
11 Tery fruitful seasons when there is a great qiiantity of bine and leaves 
-ua poles break with the weight, and in windy seasons the loss is also great. 
