74 • Vegetable StaUcks. 
ceeded the bignefs of a good thriving 
Burr. We did not begin to pick till the 
September^ which was i8 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- 
feded 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 produdions of the Vine the 
following year. Thus in the year 1722, there 
was a dry feafon, from the beginning of 
Augufi 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 
