2i4 Mr. cazaud’s Method of 
that of the effeft of thofe feafons, and from experience. 
After this, as it is an advantageous confequence 
(though not a fundamental principle) of my method, 
that I only plant a fixth part of my land every year, 
and it is objedted to this, that there are fome foils which 
will not give fo much as a fecond crop, I endeavour to in- 
veftigate what caufes can deprive a plant propagating by 
the gem of its power of giving {hoots ad infinitum , and I 
find none but fuch arife from a bad method of cultivation. 
Having written in the beginning only with a view of 
inftrudting my overfeer, and by no means with the pre- 
fumption of adding to the treafure of natural hiftory by 
theaccountof aplantwhich deferves thepenof aBUFFON, 
my observations (though I flatter myfelf extended to 
every 
de la canne, des faifons, de leurs effets, et de Pexperience. 
[e ne plante a u lb annuellement que le fixieme de ma terre, mais ce n’eftpas 
Particle fondamental du fyfleme, il me paroit feulement en etre une fuite avan- 
tageuie : cependant com me on objefte contre cet article, l’impoflibilite pre- 
tendue, meme d’une leconde coupe clans certaines terres, je cherche les raifons 
qui peovent anneantir, dans une plante vivace par fa racine, la facu'ite de rejet- 
tonner jufqu’a la contamination des fiecies; et jenepms les trouver que dans un 
xnauvais lyftemede culture. 
Quoique e n’aye ecrit dans le prineipe que pour rnftruire mon oeconome, et 
.point du tout avec la prefomption d’enrichir le depot o’hiftoire naturelle, de 
.cel 1 e d’une plante di me de la plume d’un buffox, je ne crois pas cependant 
qu’ily ait un-feul point interelfant de cette hiftoire qui m’ait echappe, maistous 
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