228 Mr. cazaud’s Method of 
The nine months during which you may reafonably 
look out for a continuation of rain are from the 15th 
of May to the 15th of February. The progreflion of 
the rain keeps, as it were, pace with that of your canes 
when they are planted in May. Moderate in the begin- 
ning, more confiderable afterwards, very copious when 
your canes are big enough to have nothing to fear from 
them, they leflen gradually as the time of the crop draws 
near. 
ythly, Whenever I ftubbed up the flumps of a plant 
which had been ten months intheground, Ialways found 
a portion of the woody part of the plant very found: 
the medullary part was rotten. This made me think that 
every planted cane continued, for the whole time of its 
duration, to derive its nourifhment not only from the 
roots of the fecond and third orders (which may be looked 
upon 
Les neuf mois ou Ton pent railonnablement efperer une continuation de 
pluye, fontdepuisle 15 May jufqu’au 15 Fevrier. Les pluyes augmentent pour 
ainli dire avec vos Cannes plantees en May ; foibles d’abord, plus coniiderables 
enfuite, et par averfes lorfque vos Cannes font alTez grandes pour ne les plus re- 
douter, ceffant enfin par degres a mefure que le terns de la coupe approche. 
7°, Lorfque j’ay deracine des fouches qui provenoient d’un plan mis en terre 
depuis dix mois, j’ay toujours tro-uve tres faine une portion de la partie ligneufe 
' du plan; la partie medullaire etoit pourrie; et j’ay cru que cbaque cann z plantee 
continuoit done pendant qu’elie fubfiiloit a tirer fa nourriture non feulement du 
fecond et du troijume ordre de racines qu’on peut regarder comme les racines pro- 
pres, 
