3 1 J^egetahle Statkks. 
ill the hop-ground : Which is doubtlefs 
the reafon why the hop- vines on the out- 
fidcs of gardens, where moft expofed to the 
air, are fhort and poor, in comparifon of 
thofc in the middle of the grounds be- 
caufe being much dried, their fibres hardens 
fooner, and therefore they cannot grow fo 
kindly as thofe in the middle of the ground s 
which by fhade are always kept moifter, and 
more ductile. 
NoVv^ there being looo hills in an acre 
of hop'groLind, and each hill having three 
poles, and each pole three vines, the num- 
ber of vines will be 9000; each of which 
imbibing 4 ounces, the fum of all the oun- 
ces, imbibed in an acre in 12 hours day, will 
be 36000 ounces, — 15750000 grains — 
62007 cubick inches or 220 gallons ; 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 fvp part of an inch 
deep, befides what evaporated from the 
earth. 
And this quantity of moifturc in a kind- 
ly ftate of the air is daily carried off, in 
a fuffi- 
