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which they cannot do when the 

 Poles are too long ; two fmall Poles 

 are fufficicnt for a Ground that is 

 young. 



If you wait till the Sprouts or 

 young Binds are grown to the 

 Length of a Foot, you will be able 

 to make a better Judgment where 

 to place the largeft Poles j but if 

 you ftay till they are ib long as 

 to fall into the Alleys, it will be 

 injurious to them, becaufe they 

 will intangle one with another, and 

 will not clafp about the Pole fb 

 readily. 



Maple or uifpen Poles, are ac- 

 counted the beft for Hops, on which 

 they arc thought to profper beft, 

 becaufe of their Warmth ; or elfe, 

 becaufe the climbing of the Hop is 

 furthered by means of the Rough- 

 nefs of the Bark. But for Lafting- 

 ncfs, Ajhen or IVillovp Poles are pre- 

 ferable j but Chefnut Poles are the 

 moft durable of all. 



If after the Hops are gro\^'n up, 

 you find any of them have been 

 under-poled, taller Poles may be 

 placed near thole that are too Ihort 

 to receive the Binds from them. 



As to the Tying of Hops, the 

 Buds that do not clalp of themfclves 

 to the neareft Pole when they are 

 grown to three or four Feet high, 

 muft be guided to it by the Hand, 

 turning them to the Sun, whofe 

 Courfe they will alwavs follow : 

 They muft be bound with withered 

 Rufties, but not io clofe as to hin- 

 der them from climbing up the 

 Pole. 



This you muft continue to do 'till 

 all the Poles are furnill:i'd with Binds, 

 of which two or three are enough 

 for a Pole j and all the Sprouts and 

 Binds that you have no occafion for 

 are to be piuck'd up ; But if the 

 Ground be young, then none of 

 tliefe ufeiefs Binds ihould be piuck'd 



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Up, but fhould be wrapt up togc-' 

 ther in the Middle of the Hill. 



When the Binds are grown be- 

 yond the Reach of your Hands, if 

 they forfake the Poles, you fhould 

 make Uie of a Stand-Ladder in ty- 

 ing them up. 



Some adviie, that if the Binds 

 be very ftrong, and over-grow the 

 Poles very much, to ftrike off their 

 Heads with a long Switch, to in- 

 creafe their branching below. 



Towards the Latter-end of May, 

 when you have made an end of ty- 

 ing them, the Ground muft have 

 the Summer Digging : This is 

 done, by cafting up with the Spade 

 fome fine Earth into every Hillj 

 and a Month after this is done, you 

 muft pare the Alleys with a Shovel, 

 and make the Hills up to a conve- 

 nient Bigncfs. 



It is not at all to be doubted but 

 that a thorough Watering would 

 be of very great Advantage to Hops 

 in a hot dry Summer : But it is 

 io much Charge and Trouble to do 

 this, that unlels you have a Stream 

 at Hand to flow the Ground, it is 

 icarce prafticable. 



When the Hops blow, you ftiould 

 obferve if there be any wild barren 

 Hills among them, and mark them, 

 by driving a Iharpcn'd Stick into 

 every fuch Hill, that they may be 

 digg'd up and replanted. 



Hops, as well as other Vegeta- 

 bles, are liable to Diftempers and 

 Diiaiters, and, among the i-eft, to 

 the Fen. 



The Reverend Mr. Hales, in his 

 excellent Treatife of Vegetable Sta~ 

 ticks, treating of Hops, gives us the 

 following Account of the State of 

 Hops in Kent, in the Year 172,)"', 

 that he receiv'd from Mr. Auftm of 

 Canterbury, which is as follows : 



In Mid'Apri} not half the Slioots 

 appeared above- ground j fo that the 



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