u 



ftrength -, and great care is to be taken not to over- 

 pole a yoving or weak ground, for that will draw the 

 ilock too much, and weaken it. If a ground be over- 

 polled, you are not to expeft a good crop from It i for 

 the branches which bear the Hops will grov/ very 

 little, till the binds have over-reached the poles, 



L U P 



About the 20th of May there was a very unrqual ap- 

 pearance, fome Vines being run feven feet, others noc 

 above three or four; foinejull- tied to the poles, and 

 fonne not vifible ; and this dilproportionare inequa- 

 lity in their fize, continued through the whole time of 

 their grov/th. 



which they cannot do when the poles are too long. The flies now appeared upon t!ie leaves of the for- 



Two fmall poles are fufEcient for a ground that is 



young. 



if you wait till the fprouts or young binds are grown 

 to the length of a foot, you will be able to make a 

 better judgement where to place the largefl: poles-, 

 but if you ftay till they are fo long as to fall into the 

 alleys, it will be injurious to them, becaufe they will 



wardeft Vines, but not in fuch numbers here, as they 

 did in mofl other places. About the middle of June 

 the flies increafed, yet not fo as to endanger the crop • 

 but in diftant plantations they were exceedingly mul- 

 tiplied, fo as to fwarm. towards the end of the month. 

 June the 27th fome fpecks of fen appeared. From 

 this day to the 9th of July was very dry weather. At 



entangle one with another, and will not clafjp about I ^ this time, when it was laid, that the Hops in rnoft 



the pole fo readily, 



Mapl 



Hops, on w^hich they are thought to profper bed, be- 



parts of the kingdom looked black and iicklv, and 

 feeiiied paft recovery, ours held it out pretty well in 

 the opinion of the moft ikilful planters. 



caufe of their warmth ; or elfe, becaufe the climbing I The great leaves were indeed difcoloured, and a lit- 

 :. of the Hop is furthered by means of the roughnefs of j tie withered, and the fen was fomewhat increafed. 



Willow^ 

 are preferable ; but Cheilnut poles are the moft dura- 



- bleofall. ■ ^^ •'»■ ' '■ ' 



' If, after the- Hops are grown up, you find any of 



- them have been under-polled, taller poles may be 

 .: placed near thofe that are too fliort, to receive the 



binds from them. 



As to the tying of Hops, the buds that do not clafp 

 '. ■ of themfelves to the neareft pole when they are grown 

 ■ i to three or four feet high, muft be guided to it by the 

 '. hand, turning them to the fun, whofe courfe tHey 



will always follow.- They muft be bound with wi- 



- thered Rufhes, but not fo clofe as to hinder them from 



If , t * 



climbing up the pole. 



This you muft continue to do till all the poles are 



furnilhed with binds, of which two or three are enough 



From the 9th of July to the 23d, the fen increafed a 

 great deal -, but the flies and lice decreafed, it raininp 

 much daily. In. a week more the fen, which feemed 

 to be almoft at a ftand, was confiderably increafed 

 cfpecially in' thofe grounds where it firft appeared. 

 About the middle of Auguft "the Vines had done 

 growing both in ftem and branch, and the forwardcil 

 began to be in the Hop, the reft in bloom ; the fen 

 continued fpreading where it was not Before perceived, 

 and not only the leaves, but many of the burs were 

 alio tamted with it. ...... 



About the 20th of Auguft fome of the Hops were iu- 

 fefted with the fen, and whole branches corrupted by 

 It. Half the plantations had pretty well efcaped hi- 

 tKefto7 arid from' tfiis time the fen increafed but littlej 

 butTeveral dzfs wind 'and ram the following week fo 



for a pole; and all the fprouts "and binds that you f *1^^ 



have no occafion for, are to be plucked up ; but if the 

 • ground be young, then none of tnefe ufelefe binds 



Ihould be pRicked up7 but fhould be wrapt up to- 

 - gdtTier'irilhelniddle ofthe hill.- - . • ^^ "^ ^^F 



Whe 



and at laft came to nothing ; and of thofe that then 

 remained in bloom, fome never turned to Hops ; and 

 ^ of the reft which did, many of them were fo fmall, 

 f^that they very little exceeded the bignefsof a good 



thrivmg bur. 



:•■; hands, if they forfake the poles, you Ihould make ufe * We did not begin to pick till the 8th o^ September, 



' nt aft-anH I'sHHrf^r in tvinnr fhem \^^t/■^^-^^^'t ^- ' n. " r ' ivnirh ifi Pio-hrppn davQ l^tf^r th^n vuf* hpfr-in thf> ^rpar 



of a ftand ladder in tying them up. 

 Some advife, that if the binds be very ftrong, and 

 -^' overgrow the poles very much, you ftrike off their 

 heads with a long fwitch, to increafe their branching 



* below, r- ' : ^ .. -" "'*'?^* ;* f..^ ^ }ii ^ . :.-o 



Towards the latter end of May, when you have m'ade 

 an end of tying them, the ground muft have the fum- 

 mer ploughing or digging, which is done by cafting 

 up with the fpade fome fine earth into every hill, and 

 ia month after it muft be again repeated, and the 

 c hills made up to a convenient bignefs. 

 It is not at all to be doubted, but that a thorough 

 watering would be pf very great advantage to Hops 

 in a hot dry fummer; but it is fo much charge and 

 trouble to do this, that linlefs you have a ftream at 



* hand to flow the ground, it is Icarce prailicableV *:*^:;' 

 ' When the Hops blow, you fhduld obfeTve if there be 



any wild barren hills among them,''and mark them, 

 by driving a ftiarpened Rick into every fuch hill, that 

 they may be digged up and replanted. -i"t;-'':'7'^^^v 



Hops as well as other vegetables, are liable" to dif- 

 tempers anddifafters, and among thS reft, "to the fen. 

 The Rev. Dr. Hales, in his excellent Treatife of Ve- 



'- ge^ble Statics, treating of Hops, gives us the follow- [ gro\Y.fo kindly as thofe in the middle of the'ground, 

 ing account of the ftate of Hops in Kent in the year 



' Mr; Auften of Canter- I duftile.^ . ,,......- ; 



• The fame curious author proceeds as followeth : Now 

 there beTrisr iboo hills In an acre of Hop-ground, and 



' which is eighteen days later than we began the year 



beforfe*; the crop was little above two hundred on an 



. acre round, and not good. The beft Hops fold this 



^ year at Way-hill, for i61. the hundred. :./u. 



The Rev. Dr. Hales, m his aforefaid Treatife, gives 



. us an account of the following experiment that he 



made on Hop-vines. . He tells us, that in July he'cut 



off two "thriving Hop-vines near the ground, in a 



thick ftiady part of the garden, the poleftill ftanding; 



he ftripped the leaves off from oneof thefe Vines, and 



fet their ftems in known quantities of water In little 



bottles; that with leaves imbibed in a'twelve hours 



day four ounces,' ' and that without leaves three- 



t fourths of an ounce.' ■ . / ^ - ' *; \ r 



-He took another Hop-pole with its Vines on it, and 



';^ carried it out of the Hop-ground into a free and open 



^ * expofure • thefe imbibed and perfpired as mucTi more 



'■^ as the former in the Hop-ground, which is, doubtlefs, 



the reafon why the Hop-vines on the outfides of 



. plantationsy 'where they are moft expofed to the 'air, 



are iRort an^ poor, in comparifon of thofe in the 



' middle' bfthe ground,' viz. t)ecaufe being much dried, 



" their fibres harden fooner, and therefore they cannot 



whicli, by fhade, are always kept moifter, and 



more 





': bur/i which is as follows : 



' ^In mid April not half the Ihoots appeared above 



•ground, fo that the planters knew not how to pole I each hill having three poles, and each pole three Vines, 



.1 theni tn fheh^fl- aHvanfao-p. ^ ' Kv '''= ' -i I ^he number of Vines will be 9000, each of which 



perfpiring 'four ounces, the fum of all the ounces per- 

 fpired by an acre in twelve hours day will be 36000 



62007 cube inches 



This defedt'of the fhoot, uppn opening the hills, 

 was found to be owing to the multitude and variety of 

 vermin that lay preying upon the roots ; the increafe 

 of which, was imputed to the long and almoft uninter- 

 rupted feries of ^ry weather for three months before. 

 Towards the "end of April many of the Hop-vines 

 were infefted with flies. •<•.-• -■^' - - 



ounces 



= 15750000 grams = 

 226 gallons, which divided by 6272640, the number 

 of fquare inches in an acre, it will be found, that the 

 quantity of liquor perfpired by all the Hop-yines will 

 be equal to an area of liquor as broad as an acre, and 



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