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Planters knew not how to plant 

 them to the beft Advantage. 



This Defed of the Shoot, upon 

 opening the Hills, was found to be 

 pwing to the Multitude and Va- 

 riety of Vermin that lay preying 

 upon the Roots ; the Increaie of 

 which, was imputed to the long and 

 almoft uninterrupted Series of dry 

 Weather for three Months before : 

 Towards the End of April many 

 of the Hop-Vines were infeftcd with 

 Fhes. 



About the 20th ofM,^^ there was 

 a very unequal Appearance, fome 

 Vines being run ieven Feet, others 

 pot above three or four ; fome juft 

 ty'd to the Poles, and fome not vi- 

 lible : And this dilproportionatc 

 Inequality in their Size continu'd 

 thro' the whole Time of their 

 Growth. 



The Flies now appeared upon 

 the Leaves of the forwarded Vines, 

 but not in fuch Numbers here, as 

 they did in moft other Places. 

 About the Middle of Jnne the Flies 

 jncrcas'd, yet not fo as to endanger 

 the Cropi but in diftant Plantations 

 they were exceedingly mukiply'd, 

 fo as to fwarm towards the End 

 of the Month. 



fmie 27th fome Specks of Fen 

 appear 'd : From this Day to the 

 9th of July was very dry Weather. 

 At this Time, when it was faid 

 that the Hops in mofl; Parts of the 

 Kingdom look'd black and fickly, 

 and foem'd pad Recovery, ours 

 held it out pretty well, in the Opi- 

 nion of the moft skilful Planters. 



The great Leaves were indeed dif- 

 colour'd, and a little wither'd, and 

 the Fen was fomewhat increas'd. 

 From the pth of July to the 23d 

 the Fen increas'd a great dealj but 

 the Flies and Lice decreas'd, it 

 laining much daily. In a Week 

 flaoie, the FeU; which icem'd to. 



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be almoft at a Stand, was confiderably 

 increas'd, efpecially in thofe Grounds 

 where it firft appeared. 



About the Middle of Augufi the 

 Vines had done growing both in 

 Stem and Branch j and the for- 

 wardeft began to be in the Hop, 

 the reft in Bloom : The Fen con- 

 tinu'd fpreading where it was not 

 before pcrceiv'd j and not only 

 the Leaves, but many of the Burrs 

 were alfo tainted with it. 



About the 20th o^ Augujl fome 

 of the Hops were infeifted with the 

 Fen, and whole Branches corrupted 

 by it. Half the Plantations had 

 pretty well efcap'd hitherto, and 

 trom this Time the Fen increas'd 

 but little : But feveral Days Wind 

 and Rain in the following Week 

 fo diftorted them, that many of 

 them began to dwindle, and at laft 

 came to nothing; and of thofe that 

 thenremain'd in Bloom, fome never 

 turn'd to Haps j and of the reft 

 which did, many of them were fo 

 fmall, that they very little exceeded 

 the Bfgnefs of a good thriving 

 Burr. 



We did not begin to pick til] the 

 8th o'i September y which is eighteen 

 Days later than we began the Year 

 before : The Crop was little above 

 two hundred on an Acre round, ' 

 and not good. The beft Hops fold 

 this Year at W^iy-Hill for lixteen 

 Pounds the Hundred. 



The Reverend Mr. Hales y in his 

 aforefaid Treatifo, gives us an Ac- 

 count of the following Experiment 

 that he made on Hop-Vines: He tells 

 us. That at July he cut off two 

 thriving Hop-Vines near the Ground, 

 in a thick, ftiady Part of the Gar- 

 den, the Pole ftill ftanding j he 

 ftript the Leaves off from one of 

 thefe Vines, and fet t -eir Stems in 

 known Quantities of Water in little 

 Bottles j tiiac With Leaves imbib'd 



