3 % Vegetable Staticks. 



in the hop-ground : Which is doubtlefs 

 the reafon why the hop-vines on the out- 

 fides of gardens, where moil: expofed to the 

 air, are fhort and poor, in comparifon of 

 thofe in the middle of the ground 5 viz. be- 

 caufe being much dried, their fibres hardens 

 fooner, and therefore they cannot grow fo 

 kindly as thofe in the middle of the ground 5 

 which by fliade are always kept moifter, and 

 more du£tile. 



Now there being 1000 hills in an acre 

 of hop-ground, and each hill having three 

 poles, and each pole three vines, the num- 

 ber of, vines will be 9000 5 each of which 

 imbibing 4 ounces, the fum of ail the oun- 

 ces, imbibed in an acre in 12 hours day, will 

 be 36000 ounces, = 15750000 grains = 

 62007 cubick inches or 220 gallons 5 which 

 divided by 6272640, the number of fquare 

 inches in an acre , it will be found, that the 

 quantity of liquor perfpired by all the hop- 

 vines, will be equal to an area of liquor, 

 as broad as an acre, and ~r part of an inch 

 deep, befides what evaporated from the 

 earth. 



And this quantity of moiflure in a kind- 

 ly ftate of the air is daily carried off, in 



a fuffi- 



