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CULTURE OF HOPS. 



^y~^HE foil for hops fhould neither be 

 J- fandy, porous, or gravelly ; cohefive 

 clay, or moor -, but a generous rich 

 loamy mould, of at leafl: eighteen inches 

 depth of equal quality, the deeper the 

 better. It muft not be liable to injury 

 from floods, or fprings. The iituatlon 

 fliould be open to the fouth, and fouth- 

 eafl:, but well fheltered on the other 

 parts, particularly on the weft; becaufe 

 the winds from that quarter are often 

 violent and boiflerous, and do more in- 

 jury to the crop, than even the northern 

 winds. Old pafture-land of the before- 

 mentioned quality generally does befl. It 

 fliould be broken up in the autumn ; 

 fometimes it is ploughed, and fometimes 

 dug, but the latter pracflice is befl. In 



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