CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION IN EUROPE. 81 



* CHAPTEK VI. 



CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION ON THE CONTINENT OP 

 EUROPE. 



As the consumption of beer in most countries increases 

 daily, so the production of hops necessarily makes equal* 

 progress. 



At the recent Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus and Edu- 

 cational Appliances, held at South Kensington in 1876, there 

 was shown a most interesting general map of the hop- 

 growing districts of Central Europe, by J. Carl and C. 

 Homan, of Nuremberg. There were also shown special maps 

 of several of the principal continental hop-growing coun- 

 tries ; an " agrarian, statistical, and general map of the 

 European hop-growing districts on the Continent and in 

 England ; " " tabular geographical representations of the 

 cultivation of hops and of the hop consumption of the 

 whole world," with a classification of the various sorts of 

 hops, and comparative tables of the agrarian measures and 

 commercial weights. These maps were exceedingly inter- 

 esting, as showing the locality and extent of cultivation of 

 a plant so important as the hop. 



According to the statistics exhibited at the Scientific Col- 



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