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Vegetable Stanch. 



the hop-ground : Which is doubtlefs 



fon why the hop 



on the 



reaion wny tne nup-vines 

 fides of gardens, where molt expofed to the 

 air, are fhort and poor, in companion of 

 thofe in the middle of the ground 5 viz. be- 

 caufe being much dried, their fibres hardens 

 fooner, and therefore they cannot grovvfo 

 kindly as thofe in the middle of the ground; 

 ■which by made are always kept moifter, and 



more duclile. 



Now there being 1000 hills in an acre 

 of hop-ground, and each hill having three 

 poles, and each pole three vines , the num- 

 ber of. vines will be 9000 j each of which 

 imbibing 4 ounces, the mm of all the oun- 

 ces, imbibed in an acre in 1 2 hours day, will 

 be 36000 ounces, = 15750000 grains as 

 62007 cubick inches or 220 gallons ; which 

 divided by 6272640, the number of fquare 

 inches in an acre , it will be found, that the 

 quantity of liquor perfpired by all the hop- 

 vines , will be equal to an area of liquor, 

 as broad as an acre, and —*• part of an inch 



deep, befides what evaporated from the 

 earth. 



And this quantity of moifture in a kind- 

 ly ftate of the air is daily carried off, in 



a fuffi- 





