cultivating Sugar Canes. 
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Hiftory of the roots of the fugar cane , and of its produc- 
tions under ground.- 
If the plant be put into the ground as foon as it is cut, 
and the weather happens to be very hot and dry, a fort- 
night often pafies before the eye can difcover any altera- 
tion in the two or three moil promifing joints; the firft 
being too hard (fee a fig. 2.) become immediately dry; 
the others (fee from y to z in the fame figure) are only 
grafs, and produce nothing, unlefs when the laft hap- 
pens to fhoot at its extremity. 
When the dry weather continues, but fo as not materi- 
ally to affedl the foil in contadt with the inferior part of 
the plant, one difcovers at the end of three weeks, about 
that part of the joint which lies undermoft in the trench, 
fome 
Hijioire des racines de la canne et de fes productions en terre . 
1% Si le plan eft mis en terre auffi tot qu’il eft coupe, et qu’il furvienne de 
grandes chaleurs fans pluye, il eft fouvent quinze jours fans que l'ceil decouvre 
la moindre alteration dans les deux ou trois noeuds de la plus grande efperance; 
les premiers, trop durs, v. fig. 2. font fi’abord defieches; les autres, her- 
baces, v.y jufqu’a z, ne produifent rien a moins que le dernier ne fe developpe 
par fon extremite. 
Si le fee continue et qu’il ne fe fafle pas fentir vivement jufqu’a la terre qui 
touche la partie inferieure du plan, ou decouvre apres trois femaines a cette partie 
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