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ted when I cut them after the January rains; dried when 
I let them ftand the three dry months, and cut them in 
April. 
May one not infer from the fifth and fixth obferva- 
tions, that from thirty-eight to forty joints are nearly the 
ne plus ultra of the growth of the cane in a good foil, 
with a favourable expofition? and that thefe thirty-eight 
to forty joints are the produce of a like number of weeks 
which elapfe from the appearance of the firft joint, at 
the fourth month’s end, or a fortnight fooner? confe- 
quently,. that the only difference between the growth of 
the canes in fuch a foil, and what it would have been in 
a moift one, is only that the former joint four or five 
weeks later than the laft would have done. 
And 
les pluyes en Janvier, deffechaes fi jc !es coupois apres trois mois de fee eft 
Avril. 
Ne peut-on pas conclure de la g et 6 e obfervation que les 38 a 40 noeuds font' 
a peu pres le non plus ultra de PaccroilTement des Cannes dans un bon terrain 
bien expofe et egoute, queces 38 a 40 nc&uds font le travail de 38 a 40 femaines 
ecoulees depuis la fortie du premier noeud a 4 mois, ou 3 mois et demi ; et* 
qu’ainfi, 1 ’accroilTement des Cannes dans un pareil terrein ne difFere de celuy 
qu’elles prendroient dans un terrein humide que des quatre ou cinq femainesv 
qu’elles nouent pliatot dans celuy ci que dans Pautrc* 
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