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ject to grow small hops, I am well satisfied the best method,(where it can be got even at at a very high rate) is to dig in, in winter, from twenty-five to thirty cart loads of good dung, and if it is not quite so rotten as to cut with a spade, I think it is the better for strong land. If this method, with good drainage, and keeping the land clean from all kinds of weeds, has not the effe€t of making the hops a good size;[should apprehend the land is either not congenial to the growth of this plant, or otherwise has been planted too long, and wants laying down to rest.

‘© The worst evil that attends the culture of hops, is the smitt, which nobody seems properly to understand, and for which no effectual remedy has ever yet been found out; neither do I think it would tend to the profit of the planters, whatever it might do to the public at large, to have such a remedy, as either more than half the land must be laid down, or hops would want a market.

«« T am afraid these few observations, from their being well known to every observant and practical hop-planter, will not be worth your acceptance; but if I can be of service to you in any future inquiries upon this, or any other business, I shall always be happy to give such assist- ance as my small experience and abilities enable me to

give, and am with the greatest respect, SIR,

Your most obedient

humble Servant,

MARTIN BOWER. To Sir Richard Sutton, Bart.