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Hijicry of the joints of the . cane above ground. 
With refpe<5t to the joints of the cane, there are two 
points of equal confequence to be confidered, the num- 
ber and the quality. 
With regard to number, the calculation of it, in 
both the methods, depends upon fo many confiderations, 
that I think myfelf obliged to reduce the queftion to its 
moft Ample hate, by barely declaring, that I now cut all 
my canes every year, inftead of only cutting three- 
fourths of them, as I ufed to do when I purfued the 
other method. Thofe, however, who with to know 
more of it, may fee in another part of this paper the only 
calculation the matter is capable of. 
As 
Hijloire des nosuds de la canne hors de ter re. 
ll fe prefente a l’egard des noeuds de la canne deux points a conftderer aufii 
eftentiels i’un que 1’ autre, le nombre et la qualite. 
Quant au nombre le calcul qu’on peut en faire dans les deux fyftemes, ell 
fubordonne a tant de fuppofitions que je crois devoir fimplifier la queftion, en 
expofant que je coupe maintenant toutes mes Cannes chaque annee au lieu den 
couper feulement les trois quarts comme je faifois, lorfque je lui vois l’autre fyfteme, 
Voyez cependant dans fon lieu, l’unique efpece de calcul dont je croye la 
niatiere fufceptible. 
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