The reformation of a disordered Garden.
TO repair a ruinous Garden, which through ignorance was disorderly set, and through sloth suffered to over∣run and decay, where neverthelesse, the Hops remain of a good kind (though somewhat empaired, as they must needs be by this mean) the very best way were to do as to the wild Hop.
The second way is to forget that it is disordered at all, ima∣gining that all were well, and to set your Poles in such order and so far asunder, as is prescribed in that Title, alwayes di∣recting them right with a line, so as a stranger beholding them, may suppose that your Garden is kept after the best manner, then lead unto each Pole two or three stalks, which you shall find nearest thereunto, and there erect a hill which you may ever after cut and dresse according to the rules be∣fore declared, and so by continuall digging, paring, and dili∣gence, you may at last bring it to some reasonable perfection.
If your Garden be very much matted with roots, so asit be too tedious to digge, set your Poles as you are already taught, and bring into your Garden, and lay near to every such place, where you mean to make a hill, one Cart load of good earth, with the which, after your Hops are tyed to your Poles, begin to make your hill, and proceed as in the Title of hills, alwayes cutting down such Hops or weeds as grow between the said hills.
If your root be set orderly, and your hills made accor∣dingly, and yet left undressed by the space of two or three years, it will be very hard (I say) to discern the Sets from the other later roots: neverthelesse if your ground be good, you may yet reform the inconvenience thereof, namely, by pulling down the hill, and cutting away all the roots con∣tained therein, even with the face or upper part of the earth, searching also each side, and digging yet lower, and round a∣bout