. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Literature. M. Molliard, Experimental Investigations on Hemp. Bui. Soc. Bot., France, 50, 1903; Viner, Experiments with Hemp, Khozyaene, 1901, No. 47, 48: Rev. in Zhur. Opuitn. Agron. (Jour. Expt. Landw.). 3 (1^02), Xo. 2, pp 248-249; Dewey, The Hemp Industry in the United States, United States Department of Agriculture, Yearbook 1901, pp. 541-554; Boyce, Hemp,—a Practical Trea
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Literature. M. Molliard, Experimental Investigations on Hemp. Bui. Soc. Bot., France, 50, 1903; Viner, Experiments with Hemp, Khozyaene, 1901, No. 47, 48: Rev. in Zhur. Opuitn. Agron. (Jour. Expt. Landw.). 3 (1^02), Xo. 2, pp 248-249; Dewey, The Hemp Industry in the United States, United States Department of Agriculture, Yearbook 1901, pp. 541-554; Boyce, Hemp,—a Practical Trea- tise on the Culture of Hemp for Seed and Fiber, with a Sketch of the History and Nature of the Hemp Plant, Orange Judd Company, New York, 1900, HOPS. Humulus Lupulus, Linn. Urticacccc. Figs. 572-576. By Jared Van Wagenen, Jr. A perennial twining herb produ- cing burs or "hops" that are used in the making of beer. It has long shoots often reaching twenty-five to thirty feet in a season; rough hairy, the stems having minute prickles pointing downward ; leaves ovate or orbicular-ovate in general outline, deeply three-lobed (sometimes five- to seven-lobed), or the upper ones not lobed ; mar- gins strongly and uniformly dentate ; petioles long; staminate flowers in panicles two to six inches long; hops (mature pistillate catkins) oblong or ovoid, loose and papery, straw-yellow, often two inches or more long, glandular and odoriferous. The hop has a tough, fibrous inner bark and a color- less juice which makes an indelible stain on white fabrics. The stems climb as much as thirty feet high by the beginning of the flowering period, lengthen- ing from a well-marked terminal "head," and nor- mally twining by rotating spirally around their sup- ports, "clock-wise" or "fol- lowing the ; The hop is dicEcious, i. e., the pistil- late and staminate flowers are borne on separate plants. The fruit may be regarded as a compact cat- kin, largely ma
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