JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
HOP CULTIVATION. 
Contents. 
PAGE 
INTRODUCTION 217 
HISTOBY 218 
THE HOP DISTRICTS OF ENGLAND 220 
VARIETIES OF HOPS AND MODES OF PLANTING 225 
DRESSING, 228; POLING 230 
ARRANGEMENTS OF WIRE AND STRING 231 
TYING, 233; LADDER TYING 234 
MANURES 234 
CULTIVATION, 237 ; EARTHING 240 
WASHING FOR APHIS BLIGHT 240 
WIREWORMS, 243 ; JUMPERS, 243 ; red spider, 243 ; hop flea . . 244 
BENEFICIAL INSECTS 244 
MILDEW 246 
“lewing” 240 
PICKING, 240; DRYING, 252; PRESSING 256 
THE COST OF HOP PRODUCTION 250 
PROFITS AND PROSPECTS 260 
Introduction. 
As there is a considerable demand for detailed information upon 
the cultivation and management of hops, in the methods of which 
many changes and improvements have been made of late, this 
account has been prepared at the request of the Eoyal Agricul- 
tural Society, in whose Journal there has been no full description 
of all the branches of this subject since the elaborate contribu- 
. tion by Mr. Rutley in 1840 on The Bed Mode of Managing 
Hops. In 1864 Mr. J. P. Smith wrote a capital paper for the 
Journal (vol. xxv.) on the Hop Cultivation of Worcester, and 
yoL. IV. t. s. — 14 Q 
