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406 OPS.

Hence, in the forcing of hop plants, there appears to be a pcint, beyond which the cultivator cannot pass, with propriety. In the District of Maidstone, we have seen, that a luxuriance of vine and foliage is, with great probability, productive of the mould, and other diseases; and, in this District, it seems equally probable, that such an exu- berance renders them more liable to the attack of the aphis. There is a MEDIUM POINT which every cultivator should en- deavor to find, and to it direct his plan of management. The foul stinted crops, here brought forward, are evidently below that point; and it may be worth the while of more spirited cultivators, to examine, with care, and to endeavor to ascertain, by com- parative experiments, whether the present practice of such cultivators, is not consi- derably above it: and whether,(in‘free- growing seasons at least) checking the luxu- riance of the vines and foliage, instead of forcing them, in the summer months, would not,fon the whole, be: the most eligible management. See the DistricT or Maip- STONE, p. 294, on this subject.