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the Committee would not, in any wise, divert the Planter's 

 attention from that point of prior importance, the proper 

 cultivation of the cane, which should obtain at least an 

 equal degree of amelioration. Special attention was di- 

 rected to the subject of Agriculture in the Committee's pre- 

 ceding Report: and, since its date, that of Messrs. Bojer, 

 Fropier, Montocchio and Ulcoq, on the system of cultiva- 

 tion introduced from Bourbon by Mr. Victor Gallet, as well 

 as Mr. Baudot's letter commendatory of it, have been pla- 

 ced in the printers' hands, for publication with the second 

 part of the Transactions of the Society. 



Such of our cultivators as have given this mode of plant- 

 ing a fair trial, speak well of it, and have, it appears, left 

 the old mode of holing to adopt the new ; which has the 

 merit, even if it possess none other, of effecting a nota- 

 ble saving of labour and economy of cane tops:— two to 

 four thousand of the latter being sufTicient to plant an acre 

 by the new plan, whereas twelve thousand, and sometimes 

 more, were required for the same surface of land holed on 

 the old system. This is especially a consideration of in- 

 terest with those who are desirous of making their planta- 

 tions with the red, or blue, cane, which is comparatively 

 scarce. 



Mr. Gallet's system seems so rational, and so much in 

 accordance wilh the latest established principles respecting 

 the development and growth of plants, that it merits the 

 examination of every inquiring planter. 



The cane should be cultivated with the view of exciting 

 an extreme development of its saccharine constitutents.— 

 « For we may presume that this plant, like many others, 

 » may, through the influence of cultivation, be caused to 

 » furnish one or other of its conslitutent principles in great- 



