...carried off in a sufficient quantity to keep the hops in a healthy state ; but in a rainy moist state of air, without a due mixture of dry weather, too much...which often spoils vast quantities of flourishing hop-grounds." " This was the case in the year 1723, when ten or fourteen days' almost continual rains...

...twelve hours, perspired, in a kindly state of the air, about 220 gallons of moisture. " But in a rainy moist state of the air, without a due mixture of dry...which often spoils vast quantities of flourishing hop-grounds. This was the case in the year 1723, when ten or fourteen days almost continual rains fell,...

...near London, on hop mildew in his Vegetable Staticks, 1727, where he wrote: in a rainy moist state of air, without a due mixture of dry weather, too much...moisture hovers about the hops, so as to hinder in good measure the kindly perspiration of the leaves, whereby the stagnating sap corrupts, and breeds...

...attributed the incidence of mildew of the hop to 'a rainy moist state of the air' which hindered 'in good measure the kindly perspiration of the leaves, whereby the stagnating sap corrupts and breeds moldy fen'. If Stephen Hales's notions on the relationship of plant to fungus were somewhat ambivalent...