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then the Goldings, and lastly, the Grapes, a hardy sort, 

 which will hang well for the last picking. Jones's are 

 serviceable to use up old poles. The writer has seen a ton 

 an acre on 7-feet poles. If, as is mostly the case in Sussex, 

 one variety only he planted, you must begin to pick before 

 your hops are ripg, or have a considerable proportion brown 

 before you can finish. 



" If the planter should determine on a piece of old tillage, 

 I recommend him to plough 10 inches, and subsoil as deep 

 as he can; the ploughing completed, he will proceed the 

 same as if it had been a meadow, with this exception, that 

 after the sticks are truly set, he should dig holes 2 feet in 

 diameter, and 2 feet deep, placing the top or best soil on one 

 side, and the bottom soil on the other side of the hole 

 obliquely, so that the heaps may not interfere with replacing 

 the sticks when the holes are refilled. Good dung, or rather 

 a rich compost, should be wheeled on, and a fork or shovelful 

 mixed with the best soil after the hole has been half filled 

 with good soil from the surface; this being finished, you 

 must readjust your sticks, and when your soil has had time 

 to settle, you may proceed to plant in the manner before 

 described. On no account bury your manure. Should the 

 weather be favourable, and your roots get a start, they will 

 require two poles to each hill 6 to 7 feet long, and if the 

 season be good, a crop of 2 or 3 cwt. an acre may be grown ; 

 if cuttings are planted you lose a year. 



" Potatoes and mangold are frequently planted between the 

 rows, and an ox-cabbage between each hill ; this will, by 

 many, be condemned, but much depends on the condition of 

 the land and the disposition of the planter to make com- 



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