Vegetable Staticks. * /j 



tf< two hundred on an acre round, and ..ot 

 " good." The befl Hops fold this year 

 at Way -Hill Fair for fixteen pounds the 

 hundred. 



The almoft uninterrupted wetnefs and 

 coldnefs of the year 1725, very much af- 

 fected the produce of the Vines the enfu- 

 ing year -> and we have fufficient proof from 

 the obfervations that the four or five laft 

 years afford us, that the moifture or drinefs 

 of the preceding year has a confiderable in- 

 fluence on the productions of the Vine the 

 following year. Thus in the year 1722, 

 there was a dry feafon, from the beginning 

 of Augujl thro' the following autumn and 

 winter, and the next fummer there was 

 good plenty of Grapes. The year 1723 was 

 a remarkably dry year, and in the following 

 year 1724, there was an unufuai plenty of 

 Grapes. The year 1724 was moderately 

 dry, and the following fpring the Vines 

 produced a fufficient quantity of bunches; 

 but by reafon of the wetnefs and coldnefs 

 of the year 1725, they proved abortive, and 

 produced hardly any Grapes. This very 

 wet year had an ill effect, not only upon its 

 own productions, but alfo on thofe of the 

 following year: For notwithfhnding there 



was 



