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the iirft year, with the young plants, 

 except onions ; which may be done in 

 the month of March, when the hops are 

 fet j and this generally proves a very 

 valuable crop. They are much better 

 than any thing clfe, becaufe they admit 

 a more free circulation of air through 

 the plantation. In each of thefe holes 

 (which, in future, mufl be diflinguillied, 

 on account of their increaling bulk, by 

 the appellation of hills) there iliould be 

 fet, pretty early in the fpring of the 

 Br{{ year, two fmall ilicks of about two 

 or three yards long, to teach the young 

 binds to climb ; and three in number 

 fliould be led up each flick, and tied 

 with meadow-rufli, fedge, or fomething 

 of a fnnilar quality, two or three times, 

 as occafion may require, in the courfe of 

 the fummer. The f^round fhould be 

 kept particularly clean from weeds, and 

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