234- Cultivation of Arable Land. Hops Varieties of. 



flies and lice;* and at the period of picking to be lefs expofed to injury from the 

 effects of the fun or rain than thofe of other forts. 



The fecond or green-bind, though lefs hardy than the preceding kind, is con- 

 fiderably more productive, and on the middling defcriptions of land, in fituations 

 that are not too much expofed, often fucceeds very well. 



But the third or white-bind, which is {till more delicate and tender, is the 

 moft in eftimation, on account of its being more early, and the produce felling 

 at a much higher price. In hops there are alfo male and female plants; but 

 the latter only afford the produce for which they are cultivated ; the former mould 

 of courfe be extirpated as improper and ufelefs. 



It is obvious, that as thefe different varieties mult of neceffity fuit different forts 

 of foil, and become ripe at very different periods, the planter mould be cautious 

 that plants of the different kinds are not let out in the fame plantation; as when 

 this point is wholly neglected, or not fufficiently attended to, there is much 

 inconvenience experienced in the after-management of the crops, efpecially where 

 they are large, from the difficulty of procuring a fufficient number of labourers to 

 proceed with the bufmefs in fo expeditious a manner as may be requifite for their 

 fafety ; while by planting the feparate forts together in a detached manner, the bu- 

 finefs of fecuring and preferving the produce may be accomplifhed with greater 

 convenience, as the crops become ready at different periods. 



The moft proper fituations for plantations of this kind are thofe that have an 

 eafy, natural, Hoping pofition towards the fouth, or which are more level, and 

 poffefs the advantage of a fouth. wefterly expofure, and which are well protected 

 and flickered from the effects of the north and north-eafterly winds, by high 

 grounds, tall fences, or trees of the foreft kinds, rifingat fome diftance from them. 

 But, as the plants grow clofely together, and rife to a confiderable height in the 

 Items, they mould not by any means be confined, or too much clofed up in the 

 plantations themfelves, but have the benefit of a full and perfectly free admiifion 

 and circulation of air, as well as light and the influence of the fun ; as thefe have 

 not only the effect of promoting the vigour and healthy growth of the binds, but, 

 by quickly diffipating and drying up the fuperabundant moifture that may reft upon 

 them, prevent the crops from being fo much injured by the blqft or mildew. 

 This is fully fhewn by the circumftance of the middle or more clofe parts of fuch 

 crops, efpecially where they are extenfive, being greatly injured in this way, while 

 the outride parts, that have the advantage of being more fully expofed to the air a 

 fuftainno injury at all in thefe refpects. 



* Synopfis of Hufbandry, 



