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number of leaves, fomewhat like thofe of 

 the commori water-flag. 



This plant is cultivated ia feveral coun- 

 tries of Afia and Africa. Every kiud of foil 

 is not equally proper for it : that where the 

 earth is deep and lights feems to be the beft. 



Plantations of the fugar-cane do not re- 

 quire very fevere labour. It is fufficient to 

 form furrows in the ground, at the diftance 

 bf three feet from each other : they ought 

 to be no more than a foot in breadth, and 

 fix incites in depths In thefe furrows the 

 canes are laid length wife, and covered with 

 earth. From each knot they fend forth 

 young llioots, but they do not come to ma- 

 turity, fo as to be fit for cutting, till the end 

 of eighteen months, A month after the 

 flioots begin to appear, all the weeds around 

 them mud be pulled up : but this care is 

 not neceOary when the cane is perfeQly 

 formed. 



After 



