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The Hop, the Hoppers, and the Season That Empties a London Ward
The hop is a climbing plant grown for its flower, which preserves and flavours beer, and it is the reason a Kentish valley in August looks like nothing else in Britannia. It is also the most demanding crop in the realm. It wants a particular soil, particular shelter, an enormous quantity of timber for poles, fuel for drying, manure beyond what any farm produces, and, in one concentrated fortnight, more hands than the whole county contains.
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