Excerpt from Medicinal Plants, Vol. 4 of 4: Being Descriptions With Original Figures of the Principal Plants Employed in Medicine, and an Account of the Characters, Properties, and Uses of Their Parts, and Products of Medicinal Value, (Nos. 228-306), Artocarpaceæ to AlgæThe cultivation of the hop certainly goes back to the eighth and ninth centuries in northern and western Europe, but was never practised by the Greeks or Romans. In England, however, the plant does not appear to have been at all generally used before the beginning of the seventeenth century, but rapidly grew in estimation, and, at the present time, this country produces the largest amount of any European State the principal area is the County of Kent and the adjacent parts of Sussex and Surrey, but hops are also grown in Hampshire and in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Several varieties are recognised by cul'tivators, depending on the shape and colour of the ripe cones. Monoecious plants are occasionally met with. Some English botanists have considered the plant to be an introduction to this country, but there does not appear to be any good reason for the supposition. Boswell Syme indeed states that the seed rarely ripens here, but we have frequently found it so in the south of England.Good figures of the Lupuline grains will be found in Berg's Anatomischer Atlas, ' t. 49.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.