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DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY. 399| ddling it to the surface, for the use of the land, ie | And, as the downward roots of the hop g \. E= NTER-| strike to a great depth,* there can be little a from doubt of the productiveness and duration of > the;

the hops, on those lands, being’ owing to the iteen calcareous earth’they comprize. Indeed, jit

SOIL,| is not probable; that, in a country, like this, land,| surrounded on almost every side, with chalk Die| hills, any of‘its soils, or superficial strata, ie said| should be’ entirely free from calcareosity.

| Remark. Hence the valley of Harbledown; e soll| which, at first sight, seemed'‘adverse to the ower| idea, that a calcareous substratum is neces- dthe| sary to the long duration of the hop, ae ng no on close examination, to be a‘good evidence Yet, in its favor.: ad en- PLANTING. What e esibiaged my atten- uiring| tion, principally, on this head, is the pis- [was| TANCE at which the hills are placed, in this anting| District. It varies, here; as about Maid-

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stone; but is, on the whole, shorter, even found,| than in the Maidstone quarter.- Six feet

y, does three inchés’square, seems to be considere , does thelss as the best medium distance. But the poles, i slow here, are shorter, than they are in’ West brin p* See District OF MAIDSTONE, page 179. |

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