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Vegetable Staticks. 



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not be improper here to give a fhort ac- 

 count of them , and the influence they had 

 on their productions. 



" Mr. Miller, in the account which he 



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" took of the year 1723? oblcrved that the 

 " winter was mild and dry, except that in 

 11 February it rained almoft every day , which 

 kept the fpring backward. March, April, 

 May, June, to the middle of July, proved 



extrcamly dry, the wind North- eaft moil 

 part of the time. The fruits were for- 

 ward and pretty good \ but kitchen- fluff, 

 efpecially Beans and Peafe, failed much. 

 The latter half of July the weather prov- 

 ed very wet, which caufed the fruits to 

 grow Co faft, that many of them rotted 

 on the trees ; fo that the autumn fruits 



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were not good. There were great plenty 

 < c of Melons, very large, but not well tafted. 

 " Great plenty of Apples ; many kinds of 

 " fruits bloilbmed in Auguft, which produc- 

 " ed many fmall Apples and Pears in Oc- 

 " tober, as alfo Strawberries and Rafpber- 

 11 ries in great plenty. 



" little Barley, much of which was very un- 

 *' equally ripe, fome not at all, becaufc fown 

 * late, and no timely rain to fetch it up. 



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Wheat was good, 



