SUMATRA, 
III 
Bt fides the method already defcribed, of turning down vines, the plan* 
ters fometimes prad;ke the following. The original vine, when^ cue 
ihorr, is not bent into the earth, but two or three of the beft Ihoots from 
it are turned down, and' let to fpring up at fome diftance ; being flill 
brought back, and trained to the fame chinkareen. By this means the 
nourifliment is collected from a more extenfive circuit of earth. Some- 
times the gardens are fuffered to grow without turning down at all ; 
but as the produce h fuppofed to be confidcrably injured by the neg- 
ledt, and doubtlefs with reafon^ the contrary is enjoined by the ftridteft 
orders. 
When the vines originally planted to any of the chinkareens, are ob- 
ferved to fail or mift ; mCtead of cepi?*ring thf*m wlrh nnw plants, they 
condudt one of the fluoots, or fuccours, from a neighbouring vine, to 
the fpot, through a trench made in- the ground, and there fuffcr it to rife 
up anew 5 often at the diftance of twelve or foi^rteen feet from the pa^ 
rent flock. 
This pra6:ice of turning do^^n the vines, which appears very fingular, 
and certainly contributes to the duration, as well as flrength of the plant, 
yet probably may amount to nothing more than a fubditute for tranfplan- 
tation* The people of Europe obferving that plants often fail to 
riirive, when permitted to grow up in the fame beds where they were 
firft fer, found it expedient lu remove tK^sTO^ at a certain period of their 
growth, to frcfb fituations* The Sumatrans obferving the fame fiiilure, 
in the firft cafe, had recourfc to the fame alternative ; buteffeiftcd it in a 
different, and perhaps more advantageous mode. It lliould be remarked 
that attempts have been made to propagate the pepper by cuttings, or 
laycrsj called chai rang, inftead of the ufual method ; which at firft fccmcd 
to promife great fuccefs ; birt it was found that thcfe did not continue to 
bear, for an equal number of years ; which was a powerful argutuent 
for difcontinuing the experiraenti 
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