CHAPTER IV. 



ON THE PLANTING OF CANES — -"VARIOUS 3IETEODS OF SETTING THE 

 PLANTS — ADVANTAGES OF WIDE PLANTING. 



The next point to be observed is the manner of plant- 

 ing the canes. The plants should be carefully selected; 

 and it would be better to have a nursery or patch of 

 canes, from which to secure good well developed plants, 

 for the early planted pieces, than to use, as is too often 

 the case, small and worthless plants, picked from the 

 worst piece of canes on the estate, and which are gener- 

 ally characterised as being " good for nothing but plants" 

 It is also advantageous to procure plants from canes 

 grown in different localities and soils. This subject, how- 

 ever, although well worthy of being attended to, is not 

 of such paramount importance as the preparation of the 

 land, as almost any plants, when put into good and well- 

 prepared land, will, after the first few sprouts, begin to 

 acquire size and strength, and throw out a sufficient 

 number of fine healthy sprouts from the bottom of the 

 first, and it is these which form the canes which constitute 

 the crop. It is obvious, however, that the better the plant. 



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