INDIAN HORSE RACE AT HOP-PICKING SOME ASPECTS OF WASHINGTON HOP-FIELDS BY SUSAN LORD CURRIER ' T IS Washington's boast that her hop fields are among the largest and her quality of hops among the finest in the world. It is not my purpose to enter into the technicalities of,the question, nor the technicalities of hop culture in any form, but simply to direct the attention to some highly picturesque features of!this industry. There is a wonderful charm about a large hop-field in the harvest season; everywhere, is the perfect symmetry of old Greek architecture. There are endless vistas, cool, green, and inviting, stretching away between the hop-poles. 54I A hop-pole in summer time is six feet or more of vivid green foliage with the lighter green of deep, innumerable clusters of hops. The poets of antiquity drew largely on the grain-fields for their comparisons; it is reserved for poets of the future to find their similes and metaphors in the hop-fields. Perhaps it is that the associations of the brewery rather than the bakery have made hopfields less available for the purposes of poetry. But if the hop-fields themselves are classical in their symmetry and regularity, the hop-buildings are anything but
Some Aspects of Washington Hop-field [pp. 541-544]
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