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than SPRING MANAGEMENT. Unper- ne, CROPS are more frequent, here, than about Heres| Maidstone. They are chiefly, potatoes and ) many beans: the latter being here preferred; as not in being thought to“ attract the vermin;” Width that is, the flies of the aphis tribe. zen the Remark. But whether the apbis of the he dis- bean, and the apbis of the bop, are one and , about the same species, or whether they exclude for the their young, indiscriminately, on these two e, here, plants, is not perhaps known. If, on ma- er op-_ ture examination, it should be found, that —than the bean does not, in fact, draw off the aphis | fly, from the hop>lants; nevertheless, it e, here, is possible, that some other plant may be y where found, to perform this desireable part; and i ae i may be worth the planter’s while, to try to discover such a plant, and to cultivate it enerally in the intervals of his hop grounds. eae SUMMER MANAGEMENT. The actice of same, or a similar kind of horse hoe, or sub~ et plow of many shares, as is in use in West ee Kent, is-seen in the hop grounds of Can- “isi terbury: as well as the harrow of a similar a‘ construction. pe In the autumn of 1795, the hop gardens of ae East Kent, taken in the ageregate, were VQL. 3, Dd

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