?, 3 o Mr. cazaud’s Method of 
up, each of the young rattoons provided with its fecond 
and third fet of roots, and each of thefe rattoons 
fattened in the ground to the joint of one of the canes 
which had been cut. This joint being ttill green, I con- 
cluded, from the fame kind of reafoning, that thefe rat- 
toons likewife drew their nourifhment not only from 
their own proper roots, but likewife from thofe of the 
joint they had come out of, juft as the planted cane draws 
it both from its own roots, and from thofe of the joint 
it comes from. 
But as the plant has been always found rotten foon af- 
ter the cane which it had produced had been cut, I began 
to fufpeift, that canes of all forts, not only the planted but 
the rattoons likewife, never draw any nourifhment but 
from 
les racines de ce plan deftechees, chacun des nouveaux rejettons en poflefiion de 
fon fecond et troifieme ordre de racines, et chacun de ces rejettons attache dans la 
terre a un noeud d’une des Cannes qu’on avoit coupees, ce noeud etant encore 
verd, j’ay conclu que les njettons jouiffoient auffi non feulement de leurs propres 
racines, mais encore de celles du noeud dont ils etoient fortis, comme la canne 
plan tee jouit de fes propres racines et de celles du noeud dont elle, tire Ton 
origine. 
Mais comme le plan, fuivant ce qu’on vient de voir s’eft toujours trouve 
pourri, peu de terns apres que la canne qu’il avoit produite a ete coupee, j’ay 
foup^onne que toutes les Cannes non feulement plantees mais meme rejettons ne 
•jouifToient jamais que des trois ordres de racines dont j’ay deja parle : ce qui fe- 
