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technical knowledge of their cultivation and management, was 
without doubt brought from the Netherlands by the Walloons, 
who introduced many other cultures, plants, and manufactures 
into Kent. 
A pamphlet upon hops, the first work published on the 
subject, was written by Reynolde Scot, printed by Henrie 
Denham, “ dwelling in Paternoster Rowe at the Sign of the 
Starre,” in 157G, and dedicated to the “ Right Worshipfull 
Mayster William Lovelace Esquire, Sergeaunt at La we,” who 
lived at Bethersden in Kent, and is advised by Mr. Scot in his 
dedication to “ looke downe into the bowels of your grounde 
and to seeke about your house at Beddersden for a convenient 
plot to be applyed to a Hoppe garden.” 1 This quaint writer 
evidently thought highly of hop land, as he says, “ One acre of 
ground and the third part of one man’s labour, with small coste 
beside, shall yealde unto him that ordereth the same well fortie 
marks yearly and that for ever,” or about 2 61. 13s. Tusser, 
who wrote in the middle of the sixteenth century, alludes fre- 
quently to the various operations connected with hop culture. 2 
In his curious Way to get Wealth, written in 1668, Mark- 
ham has an interesting description of hop husbandry, in a 
chapter headed “ The enriching of all manner of barren grounds, 
and so to make it fruitfull to bear Hopps.” 3 In the Riches of 
a Hop Garden Explained, dated 1729, Professor Bradley holds 
that 
It is time to come more immediately to the purpose of planting the 
hop, which, considering the small space of ground it takes up in comparison 
to other plants and small expense of planting, the prodigious profit to the 
proportion, and the great advantage it brings to the crown of Great Britain 
is well worth the consideration. For even ground that was never before 
esteemed worth a shilling an acre per annum is rendered worth forty, fifty, 
or sometimes more pounds a year by planting hops judiciously upon it, 
which motive induces me to give a work of this nature to the public. At 
the first time when hops were planted with us they were sold at 1/. 6s. per 
hundred, as it is observed in one of my memorandums of early date, and it 
is also remarked by the same curious observer that an acre of ground culti- 
vated for hops shall bring to the owner clear profit about 30/. yearly, for a 
long season ; but I have known hop-grounds that have cleared above 50/. 
yearly per acre to be sold at the first hand. 1 
1 A Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe Garden. By Reynolde Scot, 1576. 
* Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry . By Thomas Tusser, Gentleman, 
1557. 
3 A Way to get Wealth, containing six principal vocations or callings in 
which every good husband or housewife may lawfully employ themselves. By 
Gervase Markham, 1668. 
* The Riches of a Hop Garden Explained. By R. Bradley, Professor of the 
University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. 
