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VVHen your Hops appeare above the ground, so as you may discerne where the principall roots stand, set up your Poles, preparing their way with a Crow of Iron, or a forked wooden toole, with a point of Iron, somewhat
You must set every Pole a foot and a halfe deepe, and within two or three inches at the most of the principall roote.
If your ground be rockie and shallow, tarry the longer be∣fore you set up your Poles, so as your Hops may be growne two or three foote high, that you may adventure to make a hill or banke at every pole to stay and uphold the same, with∣out burying any of the younger Springs, which may after∣ward be covered with lesse danger and annoyance of the prin∣cipall roote.
Let the Poles of every hill leane a little outward one from another.