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notwithstanding, was not above ten inches in diameter 
when it came out of the ground. In order not to injure 
it, I ordered fix inches of the furrounding earth to be 
taken up with it. When I had had it waflied and freed 
from all extraneous earth, I found no veftiges of any 
wood but that of the canes which had been laft cut : I 
then took each rattoon apart, and found it fattened to a 
joint of thefe laft canes, which joint was ftill green. I 
examined the remains of each of thefe laft canes, and 
found the kind of bulb, fee z/, fig. 1 . by which they had 
been fattened to fome joints of canes of the preceding 
year, entirely dried up. I met with no appearance of 
this laft cane, which confequently had rotted, and in 
place of it there was nothing to be feen but dry roots ; 
roots take a great while to rot. 
Conclude 
touffe n’avoitcependant pas au dela de dix polices de diametre a fa naiflance hors 
de terre; pour ne la point endommager, j’ay fait cerner et enlever avec elle fix 
pouces de terre a 1’entour, et apres l’avoir lavee et debarraffee de toute fa terre, 
je n’ay yii de trace d’aucun autre bois que de celuy des dernieres Cannes coupees; 
j’ay detache chaque rejetton feparement, et j’ay vu qu’il etoit attache aun noeud 
de ces dernieres Cannes, et que ce noeud etoit encore verd ; j’ay fuivi les refles de 
chacune de ces dernieres cannes, et j’ay vu entierement deffeche l’efpece d’ombilic 
(v. u y fig 1.) par lequel ils etoient attaches aux nceuds de quelques Cannes de 
Fannee precedente; je n*ay vu aucune apparence de cette ancienne canne, qui.par 
confequent etoit alors pourrie, on ne voyoit a fa place que des racines defTechees, 
les racines font affez long terns a pourrir* 
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