Hops begin to flower about the latter end of June or the beginning of July.
In the months of June and July, the hops are liable to be blown by a species of aphis, or fly.
The southern counties of England, particularly Surrey and Kent, now yield their valuable produce of hops in this month.
Wild hops may be observed growing in several parts of the island, especially about some of the hedges in the Valle, and near the Friquet.
Follow him, and he only hops about from bush to bush, farther and farther away, singing as he goes a variety of strains, which is one of the bird's peculiarities.
Pour two quarts of boiling water on as many hops as one can hold in the hand.
For it has very short fore legs, which it tucks up against its breast in such a way that they can hardly be seen, and very long hind ones, on which it hops about in a very bird-like manner.
It hops along the branches instead, just as a kangaroo hops on the ground.
There are many different kinds, some of which do terrible damage to hops and corn and all sorts of cultivated plants.
It's named Soot because it's so black, an' it hops an' flies about with him everywhere.
Ben Weatherstaff scolds him and makes fun of him, and he hops about and looks as if he understood every word, and I know he likes it.
While the manufacture of beer steadily increases, the growth of hops steadily decreases.
To cap their wretchedness, when at last the picking had begun, hopsand hoppers were well-nigh swept away by a frightful storm of wind, rain, and hail.
The hops were stripped clean from the poles and pounded into the earth, while the hoppers, seeking shelter from the stinging hail, were close to drowning in their huts and camps on the low-lying ground.
Plenty of people were too slow to pick hops and made a failure of it.
I passed through Teston and East and West Farleigh shortly after the storm, and listened to the grumbling of the hoppers and saw the hops rotting on the ground.
This misfortune is divided between the people who own hops and the people who pick hops.
As soon as the fingers became accustomed automatically to differentiate between hops and leaves and to strip half-a-dozen blossoms at a time there was no more to learn.
It then busily hops about the entangled mass of rotting canes and branches, with its little tail cocked upwards.
A little, dusky-coloured wren (Scytalopus Magellanicus) hops in a skulking manner among the entangled mass of the fallen and decaying trunks.
The gentleman hops the left foot well forward, then hack; and glissades half round.
Beginning with the left foot, he slides it forward, then brings up the right foot to the place of the left, slides the left foot forward, and springs or hops on this foot.
The gentleman lightly hops the left foot forward on the heel, then hops on the toe, bringing the left foot slightly behind the right.
He begins with the right foot, slides it forward, brings up the left foot to the place of the right foot, slides the right foot forward again, and hops upon it.
He then hops the right foot forward and back, and glissades the other half round.
The second wort having run off, turn on again at 145°; mash an hour, and stand an hour; boil the second wort with the same hops for one hour.
She hops up on my knee when I sit down to talk to the chickens in the chicken park.
After I did tie my bonnet-strings under my chin in the proper way the mamma thinks they ought to be tied, I walked over to the wash-bench in hippity-hops to get that bucket of eggs.
I made little hopsover the bushes--the little bushes--as I did go along.
And I stepped three steps back and three hops over and three steps up to the door, so she would have knows we was come.
When I did turn about to so do, there was Jenny Strong going in funny little hops over the logs.
At that spot the vines of wild hops had killed all the underwood, leaving open spaces between the stoles; the vines were matted so thickly that they hid the ground.
The cushions of the sofa are strewn with dogs' hairs, and once now and then a dog leisurely hops up the staircase.
He made for a wide leap, the very limit of his powers, where the take-off was the end of a big broken branch, and racing six hops behind was the Brown Terror.
Now it was a race for the tall timber, and a close one, but Bannertail's hops were six feet long; his legs went faster than the eye could see.
A cart had to be maneuvered out of what had been a farmyard, to take the hops to market.
The hopswere ripe in the grave-dotted fields round about.
And after that she couldn't move but just to use the steps, jumps, hops and roll Frances had given them.
She stood up near the fire and announced, "Twenty steps, two jumps, three hops and a roll.
A similar idea exists in connection with hops; and, according to a tradition current in Yorkshire, the nightingale made its first appearance in the neighbourhood of Doncaster when hops were planted.
The lupuline is also somewhat narcotic; but though the fragrance of hops is said to produce sleep when inhaled in small quantities, an excess of it produces headache and vertigo, especially in nervous persons.
The smell of hemp when growing, produces the same effects as that of hops in excess; and in hot countries it is followed by a kind of stupor, like that which is the effect of opium.
A box and a board were likewise thrown upon them, and a bag of hops being taken out of a chest, they were by the invisible hand, beaten therewith, till some of the hops were scattered on the floor, where the bag was then laid and left.
My Hops are well sold, with judgement, and that Judgement my own, for even Mrs. G.
Last Monday I went with Mr. Scott to Weyhill fair, and sold my hops pretty well.
All the air was cool and fresh; the harvests were gathered home, the young birds were full fledged, the hops were plucked, and apples were ripe.
Boil the hops and water for 20 minutes; strain, and mix with the liquid ½ lb.
Boil the hops in the water for 20 minutes; let it stand for about 5 minutes, then add it to 1 lb.
A bunch of hops suspended to a string from the bung, some persons say, will preserve the wine good for several years.
Suppose a stout person gets on, the conductor hops immediately to the opposite side for ballast.
After the hops are taken from the kiln, they should be laid in a heap, to acquire a little moisture to fit them for bagging.
The beauty of hops consists of their being of a pale bright green color.
The bag must be fastened to a hoop, larger than the hole, that the floor may serve to support the bag; for the convenience of handling the bags, some hops should be tied up in each corner of the bag, to serve as handles.
By the last of August, or the first of September, the hops will be ripe, and fit to gather.
I'm going to have hops wherever the vines can find a place to climb at Sweetbrier," Dorothy determined.
The cultivation of hops came as if with a hop, skip, and jump across from Flanders, and the trade in wool was brought, under the fostering patronage of Wolsey, to a state of some prosperity.
The hops also presented themselves as candidates for British favour, and were soon at the top of the poll in all directions.
Hops are also put in to give the beer a fine flavor.
After a time the clear liquid is separated from the barley grains and hops and put into tight casks and bottles.
O had the malt thy strength of mind, Or hops the flavour of thy wit, 'Twere drink for first of human kind, A gift that e'en for Syme were fit.
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