PART III. 



CULTIVATION. 



The Eequieements of the Hop in respect of Climate, 

 Soil and Situation. 



Climate. 



The hop is a plant of the central temperate zone, and is 

 cultivated in Europe, America and Australia. Strebel ^ says 

 that " if the centres of the countries and districts where hop- 

 growing is carried on with the greatest success be connected 

 by a line, there results a curve which, to commence with 

 America, leads from the states of Michigan and New York 

 to the county of Hereford in the south-west of England. 

 From Hereford the line, with some interruption, passes to 

 the south-eastern corner of the island through Kent, thence 

 directly eastward to Belgium, and curves round to the 

 south-east through Lorraine and Alsace, to re-curve through 

 Hagenau, Eottenburg, and Spalt; ascending towards Bohemia 

 over Saaz ; passing with several breaks through Silesia into 

 the Neutomischl district, and terminating near Allenstein in 

 East Prussia. Certain districts are left untouched by this 

 curve, but if it be considered as a belt, about IJ degree of 

 latitude in breadth, then the whole of the principal centres 

 of production will be included, with the exception of Altmark, 

 Styria, and a few small isolated districts." 



' E. B. Strebel, Handbuch des JSopfenbaties, Stuttgart, 1887. 



