HOPS. 



morgen (1 morgen = 2J roods) were under hops. Subse- 

 quently, however, the whole was entirely abandoned. 



At one time hop gardens flourished in the vicinity of 

 Treves, but, according to Flatau, Wettendorf of Balduin 

 was about the only grower there in 1861 who could produce 

 — even in limited quantity — any really good hops ; and since 

 that time nearly all the gardens in the neighbourhood have 

 been dug up one by one. There are also many other districts 

 where hops were once grown, but where the industry has 

 now entirely or nearly disappeared. 



The causes of such fluctuations would lead to too great 

 a digression from our present subject, the history of the hop, 

 if discussed at this stage, and the matter is therefore merely 

 referred to as an actual fact. 



In Austria the growing of hops is known to have been 

 carried on for centuries, Bohemia being always, as at pre- 

 sent, the best district in the country. One of the most 

 energetic supporters of the industry in Bohemia, Moravia 

 and the neighbouring provinces was the Emperor Charles 

 IV., who is reported by Pelzel and Ad. Voigt to have made 

 a tour of the district and personally indicated the spots 

 most suitable for the cultivation of the hop and the vine, 

 and as having furthermore, in order to confine the benefits 

 of the produce to his own territory, imposed the death 

 penalty on all who exported Bohemian hop stocks. These 

 attempts on the part of the monarch to bring the hop-grow- 

 ing industry into a flourishing condition remained, however, 

 without any important results, owing to the fact that the 

 right of brewing was at that time restricted to monasteries 

 and municipalities, being regarded as a municipal industry ; 

 and it was only in 1517 that the treaty of St. Wenzel, by 

 conferring the same rights upon landed proprietors, led to 

 the extension of hop cultivation throughout the whole of 

 Bohemia. Traces of this are still to be found in many 



