NETTLE FAMILY 



The Hop is essentially a field plant; yet it has a real value as a 

 cover vine, because of its easy cultivation, luxuriant growth, and 

 abundant foliage; and in September the great drooping bunches 



of mature catkins are very graceful 

 and attractive. 



Japanese Hop, Humulus japdn- 

 icus, the species oftenest found in 

 gardens, came to us in 1886 and 

 at once achieved a popularity that 

 it has never lost. The leaves are 

 usually five-lobed and often streaked 

 and splashed with white. It is 

 easy of cultivation, is a quick 

 grower, and will make good vines 

 from seed sown in the spring; but in autumn it lacks the charm 

 of the hanging hops of Humulus lupulus, for its pistillate catkins 

 do not enlarge in fruit. 



Japanese Hop. Hiimitlus jap6mcus 



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