248 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



and oil, are obtained from it ; which shews 

 it to contain some sal-ammoniac, mixed with 

 some sulphur and earth. 



In Sweden, they make a strong cloth 

 from the fibres of the hop-vine, after it has 

 been dressed like flax. The Society for en- 

 couraging Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce 

 in London, offered premiums, in 1760, for 

 cloth made from hop-stalks. In the year 

 following Mr. Cooksey produced specimens. 

 In 1791, Mr. John Locket, of Donnington, 

 near Newbury, in Berkshire, had the premium 

 adjudged to him for cloth made from these 

 stalks. 



In the months of March and April, while 

 the buds are tender, the country people dress 

 them as asparagus ; they are an agreeable ve- 

 getable, and esteemed good to purify the 

 blood in the scurvy, and most cutaneous 

 diseases. 



