T laming and Gracing. 
one without :fome do chop a Spade crofs in the hill, and lay ia 
ci’oile che Hop, and fo c^ver it, ^ 
To choofe your Hop. 
\ p Ihall choofc ytur roots btd for your Hop, in the Summer 
' before ye lhall plant them, for then ye (hall fee which bcares 
the Hop, tor (ome there is that brings none; but that which bearcs, 
chop for your plants, and fctofthofe inyour hi!»,for fo (hall ye 
not be deceived 3 and they /hall profper well. 
^ To fon> the 
S Onie doe hold, that yc may Tow among other feeds^ the feeds of 
Hops, and fo will increafe and be good to fet, or elfe to make 
beds, and fow them alone, tvhereby they may increafe to be fer, 
and when they be ftrorg, ye may remove and fee them in your bils, 
and plane them as the ether before mentioned. 
The fetting your Polej, 
T He befi time is in Jprillj or when your roots be fprung halfe 
a yard long or more, then by every plant or Hep, in your hils. 
yee fhall let up a pole of 13. or 14, foot long, or there abouts, 
as caule Ilia 11 require. Somedoe ufe to fet but loure poles in every 
hill, which is thought fufficient, and when ye fhall fet them, fee 
that ye f-t them fo faff, that great windcs doe not caft them down. 
• Horvto prune the Hop- tree. 
Y Ee fliall marke when the Hop doth bloflbnie, and knit In the 
top, which fhall be perceived to be the Hop, rhen take and cue 
up all the,reft growing rhereabouts(not having Hep thereon) haid 
by the earth, that all thofe which carry iheHopjmight be the bet- 
ter nouriflied ; thus fhall ye doc in Summer, as yc fhall fee them in- 
creafe and grow, untill the time of gathering. 
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