The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith].

  • Walter Blith
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[1652]
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Credit: The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hill leame them rather outward one from another, and then _?with a rammer ram them outwardand not inward. _ Ifa pole fhculd break you take away the broken pole, and ty the top of thofe hopsto the rop of a new pole, then wind- ing it with the {una turn or two,fet it in the hole 5 bur if you can take a {take and ty ic too without wrefting the wiers of it may do wel to peece ; but if broken at the neather end, fhove the polein again ; and if your poles break in the pulling up, How todraw or will not be drawn by reafon of drought or hardnels, you bipren top> may make a pair of pinfors of 4 foot long, with an iron run- ana ing hook upon them, and with a block layd under upon the top of the hill, and fo coleweigh up your pole ; the mouth whereof made hollow. And for laying up your polee, the u- fual way isto tie two and two together in the top, being fet How to lay the j,, 61 ppofite hils,and fo raife a little earch betwixt the hils as PORE itthey were but three hils, and lay {ome hop-bands upon the three hils under ycur hop- poles, and fo draw your tops near- er together, or further off as you fee caufe. When you hops are grown two foot high, bind up with a How rotura — ruth or grafs your binds tothepoles, as doth not of it felf, “ ors fo tic winding them as oft about the poles as you can,& wind them : according to the courfeof thefun,- butnot when thedew is upon them : your rufhes lying in the fan will toughen. And now you muft begin to make your hils, and for that purpofe get a ftrong Hoe,ofa good broad bit,and cut or hoe Ae in UP all the grafs in the borders between your hils, and there- the hop-yard With make your hils with a little of your mould with them, is raifing the butnot with ftrong weeds,and the more your hils are-raifed, hi's the better, the larger,and ftronger grows your root, & bigger will be your fruit : and from this time you muft be painfull in your garden, and ever and anon till the time of gathering, in raifing yourhils, and clearing your ground from weeds. In the firft year fupprefs not one fcience,and fuffer them al] to climb up the poles,and fhould you bury che {prings of any one of your roots it would die, fo that the more poles are rc- quired to nouvifh the {pring. But after the firft year you muft Acfuftfap- noc fuffer above two or three ftalks to grow up to one pole , bs horone~ but pulldown and bury all the ret. Yet you may let them cience. rs grow four or five foot long, and then chule out the beft for | ule whic up, hop to ¢ fome belt
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