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Management of Hops. 
poles IVom 12 to 14 feet, and in some instances 16 feet lonp: ; 
there are two or three varieties of grape, decidedly differing in 
some respects ; there are the yellow, the trreen, and Cox's grape. 
Tlie first are ready to pick earlier and are of better quality than 
the other two ; on some soils they grow nearly equal to Gold- 
ing's, particularly in the vale of Holmsdalo, in Kent, near the foot 
of the chalk hills ; there they grow small, and the crops not large ; 
do not require often more than 12-feet poles. 1 he second, the 
green, or Mayfield grape, which is the sort principally grown in 
Sussex and the Weald of Kent, and is often very productive. 
The third, Cox's, were originally grown in a very old piece of 
ground at Wateringbury in Kent; that was fifty years back in the 
occupation of a Mr. Walter Barton, and for many years after of 
Jas. Ellis, Esq., of Barming, and more recently of Alderman 
Lucas. From this ground, if I am not misinformed, the sets were 
cut which Mr. Cox, of Hadlow, has grown, and distributed as a 
very useful sort (which they are), and by way of distinction called 
after his name. I knew this ground well forty years back. I 
have since planted some Cox's, and they appear to me to be the 
same variety of grape; they grow more in clusters, but not so 
large as the green or Mayfield grape, are great croppers, run to 
as much if not more bine, and require quite the same length of 
poles as those do. 
Jones's, a very different variety of hop from any before named, 
much more extensively planted than twenty years back, are 
very much improved, but not a new variety. I remember my 
father growing them fifty years back, but they are now grown 
very superior in quality ; they, like the grape, will grow on almost 
any soil, requiring short jioles, the refuse from the grajie being 
sufficient for them, from 8 to 10 or 12 feet being a sufficient 
length, they being inclined to extend their heads and lateral 
branches from pole to pole, and from hill to hill, and the hop 
growing and flourishing more under what is called housy bine 
than any other variety ; they are of better quality, and make more 
money in the market than grape, but do not generally grow so 
many. I think it is right for every planter to have some of them, 
for, as they take poles that would be otherwise of no use except for 
young hops and to burn, the expense of poling ihem is much 
lessened. 
Colegate's are a variety very distinct from any of the former; 
were first propagated from a plant growing wild in a hedge on a 
farm at Chevening, Kent, by a gentleman of the name of Cole- 
gate, who then occupied the farm ; they are a very hardy but 
backward hop, will grow on any soil, run much to bine, and re- 
(juire as long poles as Ciolding's; the hop is very small generally, 
when quite ri])c before they are picked they have a thick rich 
