es to Growth -- Leaves Turning Yellow, Summer
or Sunbrand, Cones Dropping Off, Honey Dew, Damage from Wind, Hail and
Rain; Vegetable Enemies of the Hop: Animal Enemies of the Hop --
Beneficial Insects on Hops -- CULTIVATION -- The Requirements of the
Hop in Respect of Climate, Soil and Situation: Climate; Soil;
Situation -- Selection of Variety and Cuttings -- Planting a Hop
Garden: Drainage; Preparing the Ground; Marking-out for Planting;
Planting; Cultivation and Cropping of the Hop Garden in the First Year
-- Work to be Performed Annually in the Hop Garden: Working the
Ground; Cutting; The Non-cutting System; The Proper Performance of the
Operation of Cutting: Method of Cutting: Close Cutting, Ordinary
Cutting, The Long Cut, The Topping Cut; Proper Season for Cutting:
Autumn Cutting, Spring Cutting; Manuring; Training the Hop Plant:
Poled Gardens, Frame Training; Principal Types of Frames; Pruning,
Cropping, Topping, and Leaf Stripping the Hop Plant; Picking, Drying
and Bagging -- Principal and Subsidiary Utilisation of Hops and Hop
Gardens -- Life of a Hop Garden; Subsequent Cropping -- Cost of
Production, Yield and Selling Prices.

#Preservation and Storage# -- Physical and Chemical Structure of the Hop
Cone -- Judging the Value of Hops.

#Statistics of Production# -- The Hop Trade -- Index.

#TIMBER AND WOOD WASTE.#

#TIMBER#: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in all its Aspects (Commercial
and Botanical), showing the Different Applications and Uses of Timber
in Various Trades, etc. Translated from the French of Paul
CHARPENTIER. Royal 8vo. 437 pp. 178 Illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. net.
(Post free, 13s. home; 14s. abroad.)

#Contents.#

#Physical and Chemical Properties of Timber# -- Composition of the
Vegetable Bodies -- Chief Elements -- M. Fremy's Researches --
Elementary Organs of Plants and especially of Forests -- Different
Parts of Wood Anatomically and Chemically Considered -- General
Properties of Wood -- #Description of the Different Kinds of Wood# --
Principal Essences with Caducous Leaves -- Coniferous Resinous Trees
-- #Division of the Useful Varieties of Timber in the Different
Countries of the Globe# -- European Timber -- African Timber -- Asiatic
Timber -- American Timber -- Timber of Oceania -- #Forests# -- General
Notes as to Forests; their Influence -- Opinions as to Sylviculture --
Improvement of Forests -- Unwooding and Rewooding -- Preservation of
Forests -- Exploitation of Forests