Thursday, September 7, 2017

1576 - A Wonderful Book on Growing Hop Vines

Very readable, once your eyes get used to the typeface, this book deserves to be seen more!  I bought two hop plants the other year after seeing them used on an arbor at Old Sturbridge Village.  I'll get the arbor built someday!

The title is about a paragraph long - 
  • A perfite platforme of a hoppe garden : and necessarie instructions for the making and mayntenaunce thereof : with notes and rules for reformation of all abuses, commonly practised therein, very necessarie and expedient for all men to haue, which in any wise haue to doe with hops / nowe newly corrected and augmented by Reynolde Scot.
Reginald Scot wrote it, and it looks like a relative may have updated it. I don't find any sons mentioned. Scot was an English country gentleman and Member of Parliament.

This fellow is pounding the mounded earth at the bottom outside of the poles.  The writer is careful to say not to pound where the plant roots go down.


Note the "larger image" link on the bottom of the Library of Congress digital image collection page. They have a clunky, older presentation of the book.  Great TIFF images are available though! But I doubt there is money for updating, so I am happy it is online!   Thank you, LOC.

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