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April and May it was amazingly fine, fo as to be 

 the admiration of all that faw it. The farmers in 

 fhc neighbourhood declared they had never feen 

 any thing equal to it before, for height, fize, vi- 

 gour, (trength of ftalk, and length of ear. In this 

 flourilhing flate it continued till above the middle 

 of June, About this time the weather grew cold 

 and ftormy, and continued fo till towards the end 

 of July, a few fine days intervening. The wheat 

 was now in full bloom, but frequently dripped of 

 it by the hafly fhowers that fell. Such, however, 

 is the wonderful ccconomy of nature, that if wheat 

 be flripped of its bloom by the intemperance of the 

 weather, a fine warm day reinftates it, and the 

 bloom becomes as fair and promifing as ever. 

 This I have obferved it to do feveral times in alter- 

 nate fuccedionj but there is a limit which the re- 

 turn of the bloflbms cannot furvive, and if it hap- 

 pen before the embryo is duly impregnated, then 

 the kerning or granulating fucceeds badly, and at 

 harveft the corn proves defe(5live and fmutty. 



During the growth of the corn this year (1789) 

 1 was very attentive to it from the fir ft appearance 

 of the ear in the fide of the ftalk to the time of 

 its maturity. Soon after the Ihowery time above- 

 fnentioned, I obferved a great number of the ears 



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