Vegetable Stanch. 3 ^ 
ed upon it, and was wrought at the fame 
time 5 but if in either of thefe cafes there 
was a difference, it had a different effed ; 
and the low and gentle grounds, that lay 
neglefted, were then feen lefs diftemper- 
ed, than the open and moift, that were 
carefully managed and looked after. 
The honey dews are obferved to come 
about the 1 1 of JunCy which by the middle 
of July turn the leaves black, and make 
“ them ftink. 
I have in July (the feafon for fire blafts, 
as the planters call them) feen the vines in 
the middle of a hop - ground all fcorched 
up almoft from one end of a large ground 
to the other, when a hot gleam of Sun- 
fhine has come immediately after a iliower 
of rain ; at which time the vapors are of- 
ten feen with the naked eye, but efpecially 
with refleding Telefcopes, to afeead fo 
plentilully, as to make a clear and diftind 
objed become immediately very dim and 
tremulous. Nor was there any dry gravel- 
ly vein in the ground, along the courfe of 
this fcorch. It was therefore probably ow^ 
ing to the much greater quantity of fcorch. 
ing vapors, in the middle than outfides of 
D 2 the 
