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cultivating Sugar Canes. 
THOUGH the work which I have the honour to lay 
before the Royal Society was undertaken entirely with 
a view to private advantage, it appeared to me not en- 
tirely deftitute of public utility, were that utility no 
other than what may arife from there exifting a regular 
hiftory of a plant which is worth nine millions fterling 
to Europe. 
The ufual method of cultivating the fugar cane ap- 
pears more like the confequence of fome general obfer- 
vations than the refult of fuch as ought to have been 
purpofely made. 
The methods in ufe, before mine, are reducible to 
two. 
The 
L’OUVRAGE que j’ay Fhonneur de ptefenter et de foumettre au jugement 
de la Societe Royale de Londres, entrepris uniquement pour des vues particu- 
lieres, m’a paru fufceptible d’une utilite generate, quand il ne devroit pro- 
duce qu’une difcuftion fur une pknte qui fournit a l’Europe une reproduction 
annuelle de neuf millions fterling. 
La culture ordinaire de la canne me paroit plutot etre le fruit de quelques 
obfervations generates que le refu’tat de celles qu’on auroit du faire-. 
On peut reduire a deux methodes, les fyftemes etablis avant celuy que je 
propofe. 
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