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“ two hundred on an acre round, and not 
“ good. *’ The beft Hops fold this year 
at JVay-Hill Fair for iixteen pounds the 
hundred. 
The almofl: uninterrupted wetnefs and 
coldnefs of the year 1725, very much af- 
feCted the produce of the Vines the enfu- 
ing year 5 and we have fufficient proof from 
the obfervations that the four or five laft 
years afford us, that the moifture or drynefs 
of the preceding year has a confiderable in- 
fluence on the productions 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 following 
year 1724, there was an unufual plenty of 
Grapes. The year 1724 was moderately 
dry, and the following fpring the Vines 
produced a fuflicient quantity of bunches, 
but by reafon of the wetnefs and coldnefs 
of the year 1725 they proved abortive, and 
produced hardly any Grapes. This very 
wet year had an ill effeCt, not only upon its 
own productions, but alfo on thofe of the 
following year : For notwithftanding there 
was 
