jo Vegetable St atich, 
not good. The tender Exoticks fared but ill 5 
fcarce any grapes, thofe ftnall, and of very 
unequal fizes, on the fame bunch, not ripe ; 
Apples and Pears green and infipid ; no fruit 
nor produ&s of the ground good, but crude : 
Pretty good plenty of Wheat, tho’ coarfe, 
and long ftraw ; Barley coarfe, but plenty 
of it in the uplands. Beans and Peafe mod 
flourifhing and plentiful ; few Wafps or o- 
ther infers, except Flies on hops. Hops 
were very bad thro’ the whole Kingdom. 
Air. Auflin of Canterbury fent me the fol- 
lowing particular account, how it fared 
with them there ; where they had more than 
at Farnham, and moft other places, viz. 
“ At mid-April not half the fhoots ap- 
41 peared above ground; fo that the plant- 
u ers knew not how to pole them to the 
t ’ £ beft advantage. This defeat of the fhoot, 
<e upon opening the hills, was found to be 
owing to the multitude and variety of 
<e vermin that lay preying upon the root; 
ee the increafe of which was imputed to 
'■ s the long and almoft uninterrupted feries 
of dry weather, for three months paft : 
Towards the end of April, many of the 
** hop-vines were infefted with the Flies, 
f About the 20th of May there was a 
j very 
