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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    ain will offend when they are off the pole ; you mut all ftand round rhe floor,and fpeedily ftrip them in baskets ; foritis not hurtfiill though fome fmaller leaves fall among them. Neatnefs about And clear your floor twice a day,& {weep it, and if the weather wong, very beunlikeco be fair, they may be carried inta.the houfe in blan- sai Ban but ufe no lianen, it will ftain to purpofe. And if you pull them upon poles, thea lay them upon forked ftakes,and difpatch them, be'careful of wer,left they fhed their feed, which is the mars row of them. When you have leifure takeup your poles and pile them, and carry out your ftraw, and fo depare your garden till March unlefs it be to bring in dung. And for the advancement -of your Hop-garden, get dung into your garden, & lay on fome in winter for to comfort and warm the roots, your hils pulled pele down, and let your roots lyebare all winter feafon: your old How to dref & “ung is beft,rather none than not rotten. pruinthe roots Andin April help every hill with a handfull or two of good i VVinrer, earth when thehop is wound about the pole, but in March you will find, unlefs it have been tilled, all weeds; bucif you have pulled down your hils,and layd your grouudas-it were level], it will ferve to maintain your hils forever; but if you have not pulled down your hils, you fhould with your hoe as ic were un- dermine them round till you come near the principall,and take the upper or younger roots in your hand, and difcerning where the new roots grow out of the old fets, of which be carefull, but {pare not the other ; but in the firft year uncover no more than thetops of the old Sets,but cut no roots before the end of March or beginning of April. The firft year of dreffing your roots you muff cut away allfuch as grew the year before, within one inch of thefame; and every year after cut them as clofe to the old roots; thofe that grow downward are not to becut, they bee thofe that grow outward, which will incumber your Garden , the difference between old’and new eafily appeares ; you will find your old {ets notencreafed in length, buca lictle in bignefs, and in few yearsall'your fets will be grovvn into one; and by the colour alfo, themain root being red, the other white, but ifthis be not early done, then they Wil] not be per ceived 5 and if your Sets be{mall, and placed in good ground, and thehill well maintained, the new roots will be greater than the old; if they grow to wild hops, the ftalk will wax red, pullit ae ana:
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