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not good. The tender Exoticks fared but ill; 

 fcarce any grapes, thofe {matt, and of very 

 unequal fizes, on the fame bunch, not ripe 5 

 Apples and Pears green and infipid ; no fruit 

 nor products of the ground good, but crude: 

 Pretty good plenty of Wheat, tho' coarfe, 

 and long ftraw ; Barley coarfe, but plenty 

 of it in the uplands. Beans and Peas mod 

 flourishing and plentiful 5 few Wafps or 

 other infects, except Flies on hops. Hops 

 were very bad thro' the whole kingdom. Mr. 

 Aafiin of Canterbury fent me the following 

 particular account, how it fared with them 

 there ; where they had more than at Farnham, 

 and moft other places, viz. 



" At mid-April not half the fhoots ap- 

 < c peared above ground ; fo that the plant- 

 " ers knew not how to pole them to the 

 <c beft advantage. This defect of the moot, 

 " upon opening the hills, was found to be 

 " owing to the multitude and variety of 

 <c vermin that lay preying upon the root ; 

 c< the increafe of which was imputed to 

 << the long and almoft uninterrupted feries 

 <c of dry weather, for three months paft : 

 <{ Towards the end of April, many of the 

 f c hop-vines were infefted with the Flies. 

 * c About the 20th of May there was a 



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