HOPS. 1^1 
being taken oft", they desisted. He believes they will 
not bear any further advance of the duty. 
Mr. Pomeroy's account of the cultivation and ma¬ 
nagement of hops, in this county, is as follows:— 
“ The hop plantations of this county are, in general, 
a pattern of neat and excellent husbandry. A very 
general and judicious experience, and the most per¬ 
severing industry, have placed its management, in 
this particular, on the most respectable footing; and 
though something may be as yet reserved to engage 
and recompense the future exertions of the ingenious 
and industrious, it may be asserted with truth, that the 
peculiar, or more general produce, of no part in the 
kingdom, has been cultivated with a greater variety of 
experiment, and emulous exertion, than the hop^plan* 
tations of this and the adjoining county. The different 
sorts of this valuable plant, cultivated here, are ranged 
under three general heads: the red, the green, and 
the white. A various cultivation, the real source 
probably of these first distinctions, has introduced a 
variety of different species, though differing little more 
than in name and degree, of the same colour, shape, 
and size. There are two, however, in more particular 
esteem, both with the planter and merchant ; the 
Golding-Vine, brought from the neighbourhood of 
Canterbury, and the Mathan-White, the name of which 
denotes it to be a native of this plantation, and of the 
parish of that name. The most hardy, that which will 
flourish w ith the least attention, and is least liable to 
suffer from the seasons, is the red; perhaps the original 
stock. The next in this line, is the green; which is 
also the most productive. The tenderest, though, at 
the same time, the most valuable, is the white. The 
plantations of this county are principally to the west 
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