V. HORSB-RADISH. 



next year rods, the next year small and short poles, upon 

 which they begin to bear, and the next year poles of the 

 full length sufficient to carry a crop. The vines which 

 have gone up during the summer and borne the crop are 

 cut off to within two feet of the ground when the hops 

 are gathered ; in the spring of the year, the earth is 

 drawn away all round from the hill, and all the top part 

 of the plants is cut off, leaving the crown to look like a 

 piece of cork ; from this crown, which is lightly covered 

 over with earth, fresh shoots come again in great num- 

 bers, a part of the finest of these go up the poles, the 

 weak ones are suffered to hang about the ground for 

 some time ; they are then cut off close to the ground, 

 and the earth is drawn over the crown of the hill, form- 

 ing a pretty large heap altogether before the summer be 

 over. To have hop-tops in a garden, therefore, about a 

 dozen or twenty hills might be planted along, and pretty 

 near to, one of the hedges. The cultivation should be after 

 the manner above directed ; but, as there must be some 

 vines to go up to the full length, there might be a pole or 

 two to each hill to carry up four or six stout vines. The 

 poles need not be long, and, if they were not permitted 

 to bear, the plant would be the stronger. These hill* 

 would, every spring, send forth a prodigious number of 

 shoots to serve as tops. These, as was said before, are 

 to be cropped off close to the ground when they are four 

 or five inches long j and the hills, when once established, 

 will last for a life-time with the culture before-mentioned 

 and with a good digging of the ground once every 

 winter. 



152. HORSE-RADISH. As a weed, I know of 



