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RICHES

OF A

HOP-GARDEN

EXPLAIN'D;

From the feveral Improvements arifing by
that Beneficial PLANT: As well to the
private Cultivators of it, as to the Publick.
With the Obfervations and Remarks of the most
celebrated Hop-Planters in Britain.

Wherein fuch Rules are laid down for the Management
of the Hop, as may improve the moft barren Ground,
from one Shilling to thirty or forty Pounds an Acre
per Annum.

In which is particularly fet forth, the whole Culture
from the first breaking up of the Ground, the Plant.
ing, &c. to the Kilning, or Drying of the Hop.
Rendred familiar to every Capacity.

By R. BRADLEY, Profeffor of Botany
in the Univerfity of Cambridge, and F. R. S.

LONDON:

Printed for CHARLES DAVI s in Pater-nofter Row,
and THOMAS GREEN at Charing-Crofs.
MDCCXXIX.

ΤΟ

HIS GRACE

THE

Duke of Beaufort,

May it pleafe YOUR GRACE,

T

HE Honours I have

enjoy'd, in the Acquaintance of many of your Illuftrious Family, which has given me Opportunity of observing, with

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