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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



THE HOP IN GARDENS. 



HERE are few things more beautiful than the 

 common hop, which, even when seen climbing 

 over the straight poles in the hop fields, has a 

 gracefulness and picturesqueness inexpressibly 

 charming. We can take some of this beauty to 

 the garden, and use the hop for covering bowers, 

 arbors, trellis-work, and odd nooks, especially if 

 evergreen vegetation is not required. A good 

 use for it is as a climber permitted to ramble at 

 will over dead trees, amongst shrubs and stumps, 

 as any soil is suitable. We lose much picturesque 



Fig. 398.— A Hop-Covered Archway. 



