Sentence:  ... great part of it ... was formerly planted with orchards of apples, cherries, and other kind of fruit, but these falling to decay, and the high price of hops yielding a more advantageous return, many of them were displanted, and hops raised in their stead, the scite of an old orchard, being particularly adapted for the purpose, which, with the <WSD>kindliness</WSD> of the soil for that plant, produced large crops of it ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Favourableness; mildness.