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their firength. The colour of thoſe hops that hang till they are ripe, can never be ſo beautiful as 1f they were gathered green; for they are generally bruiſed by the wind at the equinox, the time of their ripening, But the quali ity of cheir bitter 1s ſuperior in flavour, goes farther, and will never deceive in brewing, like the early- gathered ones, keeping good 1f home dried provincially, or full dried for years. In all theſe qua lities, the Middle Kent hops are not exceeded by any$. Yet it 1s the prac- tice of Middle Kent, the inhabitants not being ſufficient by three-fourths to gather in the crop O6 OPs, CONES ploy people com ning from London(on account of the great extent of their pl lantation) who do not pick them quite ſo free of the very fine green ſmall leaves growing on the bine with the hops as they do at Farnham, or in- deed, as ſome are in Eaft Kent. Yet thoſe ſmall leaves do not prejudice the qua lity of the bitter; and if they do no other good, they ſhew the manner in which the hops have been dried to the buyer, from their conſequent

nuddy colour; and are a guide in that very im-

clear or

portant property OF thE OPS and are ſo far of ſervice.

Put where this 1s carried to an extreme, as I have ſeen it

done in both Eaßt and Middle Kent, 1t becomes a fault. Another Note, E the ſame Gentleman.

A corn- farmer coming from ſuch a fertile ſpot as the low tich lands of Eaſt C with inexhaufſtible ſupplices of rich manure furniſhed by the ea 1 and without any 1e caſe ES all

part of the farm robbing the reſt, as 1s hop-farms, ſhould be reminded, that the principal farms

$ Eaſt Kent hops generally ſell for moſt money. Editor. | He lives on high chalky hills, at too great a diſtance from the ſea,

to get any of the ſupplies of manure alluded to Editor, of