THEIR CULTIVATION, COMMERCE, AND USES IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. A MANUAL OF REFERENCE FOR THE GROWER, DEALER, AND BREWER. BY P. L. SIMMONDS, EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED SCIENCE; HON. AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF MONTREAL, CANADA ; THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF KONIGSBERG; AND THE IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, ETC. PREFACE. A LONG connection with agricultural literature, and an extensive home and foreign and colonial correspondence with cultivators and agricultural societies, have shown me how rapidly hop culture is extending with the increased demand for beer, and hence the necessity for some reliable manual of ready reference, bringing down the practice and statistics on this important product to the present time. Although I cannot hope to be able to afford much practical or novel information to the, experienced hop growers of England, yet this attempt on my part to condense into a reasonable compass a few useful hints and suggestions, combined with the latest statistics of production and consumption in various countries, may perhaps prove acceptable in some distant quarters, and especially in our Australian colonies. 85, FINBOROUGH ROAD, S.W. P. L. SIMMONDS. |
