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from riling above ground, conferjuently how bad the 
method of moulding up the flumps, thought by fo many 
people to be fo good, really is; flnce it raifes the flump 
every year, and ought, therefore, only to be adopted with 
refpedt to thofe pieces one propofes to replant the next 
year : then, indeed, it is excellent, but in that Angle cafe 
only. 
Hence likewife it appears, why rattoons are forwarder 
at the twelvemonth’s end than planted canes are at the 
end of thirteen. The firft order of the roots of the rat- 
toons is in its full vigour at the inftant of the crop; that 
of the planted canes is feldom fo at a month’s end. 
We likewife fee why the rattoons of canes that have 
been cut at the end of ten, eleven, or twelve months, are 
alway s finer than thofe of canes which have flood fifteen 
or fixteen months ; the woody part of the latter being 
much 
d’empecher la fouche de s’elever; et combien eft mauvaife la maxime de re- 
chauffer, que tant de gens trouvent ft bonne, qui eleve cependant tous les ans la 
fouche, et qu’on ne devroit fuivre que par rapport aux pieces qu’onfe propofe d© 
replanter l’annee fuivante, elle eft excellente alors, mais dans ce cas feulement. 
On voit aufli pourquoy les rejettons a douze mois font plus avances que les 
Cannes plantees ne le font a treize: le premier ordre de racines des rejettons eft 
dans toute fa force au moment de la coupe, celuy de Cannes plantees l’eft rare- 
ment au bout d’un mois. 
On VGit aufti pourquoy les rejettons des Cannes coupees a dix, onze, et douze 
mois font toujours plus beaux que ceux des Cannes coupees a 15 et 16 mois, le 
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