l/tgetahle Statkks. 3 3 
a fafficicnt quantity, to keep the hops in 
a healthy ftatej but in a rainy moift (late 
of air, without a due mixture of dry wea- 
ther, too much moifture hovers about the 
hops, fo as to hinder in a good meafure the 
kindly perfpiration of the leaves , whereby 
the ftagnating fap corrupts, and breeds mol- 
dy fen, which often I'poils vaft quantities 
of flourifhing hop-grounds. This was the cafe 
in the year 1723 , when 10 or 14 days ai- 
moft continual rains fell, about the latter 
half of after 4 months dry weather; up- 
on which the moft flourifhing and promifing 
hops were all infected with mold or fen, 
in their leaves and fruit, while the then 
poor and unpromifing hops efcaped, and pro- 
duced plenty 3 becaufe they being fmall, did 
not perfpire fo great a quantity as the others $ 
nor did they confine the perfpired vapor , 
fo much as the large thriving vines did, in 
their fhady thickets. 
This rain on the then warm earth made 
the grafs flioot out> as fall as if it were in a 
hot bed ; and the apples grew fo precipicate- 
ly, that they were of a very flafhy conftitu- 
tion , fo as to rot more remarkably than 
had ever been remembred. 
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