22 6 Mr. caz aud’s Method of 
fhaft of an arrow, fee/, fig. 5. This is the immediate 
growth or production of the main ftem already formed. 
The buds which adhere to the fecond, third, and fourth 
row of the third fet of roots likewife unfold and ap- 
pear in regular fucceffion during each of the following 
weeks, if the rains continue. Still, however, thefe are 
only fecond productions. The third are tlrofe which come 
out of the fecond in a month or five weeks after, if the 
rains continue, fee g, fig. 5 . But we muff not forget to 
obferve, with refpecft to the fecond productions, that an 
exceeding favourable feafon being neeeffary to their ap- 
pearance, and this twelfth or fourteenth week (from the 
circumftance of the plantation, being began in October 
or November) falling out in February or March, which is- 
the ufual time of the greateft droughts, they may be 
kept 
y.f fig* 5 * C’eft une produdlicn propre de la fouche deja formee: les boutons 
attaches au 2% 3% 4% &c. plan de racines de ce 3 e ordre, fe devdoppent aufli et 
paroiffent fucceflivementchacune des femaines fuivantes fi la pluye continue , mais 
ce ne font encore que des fecondes productions. Les troifames productions feront 
celles qui un mois ou cinq femaines apres fortiront daces fecondes, v.g, fig. 5*. 
fi la pluye continue. Mais ce qu’il ne faut pas oublier par rapport aux fecondes pro- 
ductions) c eft qu’elles ont befoin pour paroitre d’une faifon tres avantageufe, et 
que cette i2 e ou I4 e femaine dans laquelle elles doivent paroitre ne tombant eii 
egarcl aux plantations de Novembre et Decembre, qu’en Fevrier ou Mars, terns 
du plus grand fee qui fufpend prefque entierement la vegetation dans la terra 
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