A technical textbook on growing flax and preparing it for market, from the Pitman's Textile Industries Series. It follows the crop from the plant, fibre and seed through soil, manures, sowing, weeding, pulling and harvesting, then deseeding, retting (pond, dew, tank and warm-water methods) and scutching by hand and machine, and ends with marketing of flax. It is illustrated with line drawings of machines, graphs and photographs, and includes an index. The focus is Irish and Belgian practice.