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a diffident quantity, to keep the hops in 

 a healthy ftatc; but in a rainy moid ftarc 

 of air, without a due mixture of dry wea- 

 ther, too much moirlurc hovers about th c 

 hops, Co as to hinder to a good mcafurethc 

 kindly perfpiration of the leaves , whereby 

 the ftagnating lap corrupts, and breeds mol- 

 dy fen, which often (poils vaft quantities 

 of flourifhing hop-grounds. This was thc cafe 

 in the year 1723 , when 10 or 14. days al- 

 moft continual rains fell, about the latter 

 half of July, after 4 months dry weather j up- 

 on which the moft flourifhing and promifing 

 hops were all infected with mold or fen, 

 in, their leaves and fruit, while the then 

 poor and unpromifing hops cfcaped, and pro- 

 duced plenty 5 becaule they being fmall, did 

 not pcrfpirc fo great a quantity as the others 5 

 nor did they confine the perfpircd vapor , 

 fo much as the large thriving vines did, in 

 their fhady thickets. 



This rain on the then warm earth made 

 the grafs fhoot out, as fad as if it were in a 

 hot bed $ and the apples grew £b precipitate- 

 ly, that they were of a very flamy conftitu- 

 tion , fo as to rot more remarkably than 

 had ever been remembred. 



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