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Show LU LU when they are grownto three or four Feet nigh, mutt be “guided to it by the Hand, turning them to “the Sun, whofe Courfe they will niw ays follow: They muft be boundwith euler d Rufhes, but not fo clofe as to hinder themfromclimbing upthe Pole. This you muft continue to do *till all the Poles are furnifh’d with Binds, of whith two or three are enough for a Pole; andall the Sprouts and Binds? that you have no occ afion for are to be pluck’d up: But if the Ground be young, then none of thefe ufelefs Binds fhould be pluck’d up, but fhould be wrapt up together in the middleofthe Hill. ‘When the Binds are grown beyond the Reachofyour Hands, if they forfake the Poles, you fhould make ufe of a Stand-Ladder in tying themup. Some advife, that if the Binds be very ftrong, and over-growthe Poles very much, to ftrike off their Flends with a long Switch, to increafe their branching below. Towards the Latter-end of May, when you have made an end oftying them, the Ground muft have the Summer Digging: ‘This is done, bycaiting up with the “Spade fome fine Earth into ev ery Hill; anda Month after this is done, you muft pare the Alleys with a Shovel, and make the Hills up to a convenient of the forwardeft Vines, but not in fuch Numbers ee as they did in moft other P} aces, About the Middle of Fuze the F]lies increasd, yet not fo as to endanger the Crop; but in diftant Plantations they wereexceedingly mul tiply’d, fo as to {warm towards the End of the Month, June 27th fome Specks of Fen appear’d: From this Dayto the “oth of Fuly we very dry Weather. At this Time, when it was faid that the Hops in moft Parts of the Kingdom look’d black and fickly, and feem’d patt Recovery, ours held it out pretty well, in the Opinion ofthe moft fkilful Planters. The great Leaves were indeed difcolour’d, andalittle wither’d, and the Fen was fomewhat increas’d. From the gth of July to the 23d the Fen increas’d a great deal; but the Flies and Lice decreas’d, it raining much daily. In a Week more, the Fen, which feem’d to be almoft at a Stand, was confiderably increas’d, efpecially in thofe Grounds where it firft appeared. About the Middle of the Vines had done growing both in Stem and Branch; the forwardeit beganto be in the Hop, the rett in Bloom: The Fen continued fpreading where it was not before perceiv’d; andnot only the Leaves, but many of the Burrs were Bignefs. It is not at all to be doubted but that a alfo tainted withit. About the 20th of Aygu/f fome of the Hops 1orough Watering would be of very great vantage to Hops in a hot dry Summer: But wereinfected with the Fen, and whole Branche corrupted by it. Half the Plantations ha it is fo much Charge and Trouble to do this, that unlefs you have a Stream at Hand to flow the Ground, it is fearce practicable. When the Hops blow, you fhould obferve if there be any yalbarren Hills among them, and ma : 3 by driving into every fuch ‘Hill, that up, andreplanted. Hops, as wellas s, areliable to Diftempers and Diifafters, ee among the reft, to the Fen. the Reverend Mr. 5, in his excellent Treatife of V , treating of Hops, gives us the follor. ing Account of the State of Hops in Kent, in the Year 1725, that-he receiv’d from Mr, Aujtin of Canterbury, which is as follows i In Mid-4pril not half the Shoots appear’d ve-ground; fo that the Planters knew not how to plant themto the beft Advantage. This Defect of the Shoot, upon opening the Hills, was found to be owing to the Multitude and Variety of Vermin that lay preying upon the Roots;3 the Increafe of which, was imputed e the _long | and almoft uninterrupted r for three NVionthsbefore: of April many of the Hop1 ted withFlies. About the 2oth of Maythere was a very unequal Appearance, fome Vines being run feven Feet, others not above three orfour; fome juft ty’d to the Poles, and fome not vifible: And this proportionate Inequality in their Size continu’d thro’ the whole Time oftheir Growth. } The Flies now appeared upon the Leaves pretty well efcap’d hitherto, and from Time the Fenincreas’d but little: But feveral Days Wind and Rain in the following Week fo diftorted them, that manyofthemb to dwindle, andat laft came to nothing; a of thofe that then rer never turn’d to Hops; and ofthe did, many of them were fo fmall, y very little exceeded the Bignefs of a goo¢ thriving Burr. We did not begin to till the September, which is eighteen Days later wa we began the Year before: The Crop ¥was of thofe in the Middle of the Ground, becaufe being much dry’ d, their Fibres arte n at ande the refore they cannot grow fo ki ndly as thofe in the Middle of the Groun¢d, which, by SI! ade, are always kept moifter, and more duttile. The fame curious Author proceeds as fol- ow there being 1000 Hills in an loweth: Acre of Hop- Ground, and each Hill having 3 Poles, and ¢ ach Pole 3 Vines, the Numt of Vines will be noes each of w hich perfpiri 4 Ounces, the Sum ofall the Ounces perfpired n Acre in 12, Hours Day will be gears 15750000 Grains ) 220 Gallons; wl livided 40, the Numberof fquare Inches in will be found that the Quantity or perfpir’dby all the Hop-Vines will by an of be equal to an Area of Liquor as broad as ar Part of an Inch deep, befides Acre, and what evaporated from the Earth. And thi Quantity of Moifture in a kindly F the Air, if daily carry’d off, is a fuf- nt Quantity tokeep the Hops inan healthy But in a rainy moift State of Air, iout a due Mixture of dry Weather, too Moifture hovers about the ( toih nder, in fome meafure, tl 2 whereby ration of the Leaves, Sap corrupts, and breed ouldlyfoe t ff oils vaft Quantities of Aourifhing e Cafe in the Year 1723, wl nual Rains n or fourteen Days almotftc » after four about the latter half of moft dry hs all inand then poor and unpromifing and produc’d Ple nty 3 be ll, ae not pe rfp 1 nor did they confine the fo nuchas thelarge thriving r Thickets. after. The Honey-Dev re obferv’d about the x1th of June, which by the - Fuly turn the Leaves bla The faid Mr. a Month of Fuly the Plant | in the Middle of } up almoft from oneae nd of a to the other, wh has come immed at which Tin the naked Eye, Telefcopes, to a | a clear and diftinét Obj ately very dim any dry gravelly Vein in the Ground the Courfe of this Scorch: It was ther probably, owing to the muc h greater Qt tity of {corchin 1 ; t the Outfides of the denfer Medium, as p much hotter than a ( olumeof afcend he Sun-beams con| ing Vapours m he Middle of the verge a little towar ‘ enfer Mec Ground, that b theereby incre} the H confi let the Courfe of the Deeobferv’d, t in Lines at Right ¢ x0t Gleam v he Hop-Gror from South-W and not good. Thebeft Big5 fold this at Way-LHill for fixteen Pounds the Hundred The Reverend Mr. Hi r gentle ot impro Treatife, gives us an Account of the iee that he cee on Hop-1 - tells us, That at fuly he cut off two Hop-Vines near the — in athick, { Part of the Garden, the Pole ftill ft he ftript the Leaves off from one oF Vines, and fet their Stemsin known Qu tities of Water in little Bottles; that Leaves imbib’d in a twelve Hours Da} Ounces, and that without Leaves three-1ou of an Ounce, He took another Hop-F on it, and carry’d it out of into a free and open Expoft bib’d and _perfpir id as much former in the Hop und: W lefs, the Reafon why the fides of Gardens, where they < tothe Air, are fhort and poor, to thofe fhelving to the South 5 of Grounds, than to the Out dry and gentle Grounds, than to the mo and ftiff Grounds. This was very apparent througho Plantations where the Land had the Workmanfhip and Help beftow’d upon it, was wrought at the fame Time. But if in either of thefe Cafes there was a Difference, it had a different Effet; and the low and gentle Grour 2éted, were on lefs diftem which were carefully pen Grou e North, than |