. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. LATE VARIETIES 345 after which the thickened basal portions of each of the previous year's ' bines' are cut off within a quarter of an inch or less of the old rhizome. The latter, therefore, extends but a short distance each year, and the thickened pieces cut off are called 'cuts' and are either used for the formation of 'sets' for the propagation of the crop, or are thrown away. Each ' cut' is from 4 to 6 inches long and bears upon it two or three opposite groups of buds (Fig. 108). The 'cuts' are either planted out i
. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. LATE VARIETIES 345 after which the thickened basal portions of each of the previous year's ' bines' are cut off within a quarter of an inch or less of the old rhizome. The latter, therefore, extends but a short distance each year, and the thickened pieces cut off are called 'cuts' and are either used for the formation of 'sets' for the propagation of the crop, or are thrown away. Each ' cut' is from 4 to 6 inches long and bears upon it two or three opposite groups of buds (Fig. 108). The 'cuts' are either planted out in the garden at once, in which case they are known as ' cut sets,' or are placed in beds in a nursery until autumn, at which time they are removed to their permanent quarters in the hop-garden : the latter is the best and most usual practice, and ' cuts' treated in this way are known as 'bedded sets.' The 'sets' are planted in rows, the rows being from 6 to 10 feet apart, and the plants from 5 to 8 feet apart from each other in the rows. Usually they are planted at the corners of squares of 6 or 7 feet side. Hops may also be raised from ' seed ' (fruits) sown in autumn. About half the plants ob- tained in this manner are males and of no use to the grower; the rest—female plants—are generally of poor quality, and very rarely re- semble the female parent. For example, most of the female seedlings from the choice Canter- or'cuttingTaPie/eof bury Whitebine variety yields strobiles which thi'"kTweJ^fving^'part are coarse and of objectionable aroma. The and\:verlT'g?^Vs°of large preponderance of plants of very poor buds as at b. quality among seedlings is no doubt connected with the fact that one of the parents, namely, the male, is always practically a wild form, for, on account of their being of no use. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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