Increasing of hops.
49
Not breake off, but cut off, from hop the hop string,
leaue growing a little againe for to spring.
Whose hill about pared, and therewith new clad,
shall nourish more sets against March to be had.
The order of hops gathering.
50
Hop hillock discharged of euerie [let],
see then without breaking, ech pole ye out get.
Which being [vntangled] aboue in the tops,
go carrie to such as are plucking of hops.
Hop manger.
51
Take [soutage] or [haier] (that couers the [kell]),
set like to a manger and fastened well:
With poles vpon [crotchis] as high as thy brest,
for sauing and[23] riddance is husbandrie best.[E373]
Saue hop poles.
52
Hops had, the hop poles that are likelie preserue,
(from breaking and rotting) againe for to serue:
And plant ye with alders or willowes a[24] plot,
where yeerelie as needeth mo poles may be got.
Drieng of hops.
53
Some skilfullie drieth their hops on a kell,
and some on a soller, oft turning them well.
Kell dried will abide, foule weather or faire,
where drieng and lieng in loft doo [dispaire].