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11 cecded the bignefs of a good thriving 

 " Burr. We did not begin to pick till the 

 €C 8th of September, which was 18 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 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 5 and we have fufficient proof 

 from the obfervations that the 4 or 5 laft 

 years afford us, that the moifture or drynefs 

 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 feafan, from the beginning of 

 Augiifl 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 fol- 

 lowing year 1724, there was an unufual 

 plenty of Grapes. The year 1724 was mo- 

 derately dry, and the following fpring the 

 Vines produced a fufficient quantity of bran- 

 ches, but by reafon of the wetnefs and cold- 

 nefs 



