.a 6 8 Mr. cazaud’s Met bod of 
2d, Though fome canes have no arrow, they are all 
fubjedt to that internal revolution of which I have 
fpoken, viz. the diminution and impoverifhment of their 
juices. 
3d, Whenever in a plantation, the foil of which, 
though good, had been accidentally abandoned, there 
has happened to be found a fhrub ftrong enough to ferve 
as a prop to a cane having an arrow and (hoots from its 
eighth or ninth joint (/, m , fig. 1 .) ; thefe (hoots have 
each of them produced a cane: far inferior indeed in 
beauty to that out of which they had themfelves fprung, 
but which, doubtlefs, would have wanted nothing to 
have born an arrow and canes in their feafon alfo, but 
fuch another fhrub as that to which they owed their 
exiftence. 
I know nothing of the obfervations upon which the 
opinion is grounded, that the cane does not come to per- 
fedtion 
2°, Que les Cannes qui ne flechent pas n’en eprouvent pas moins la revolution 
interieure dont j’ay parle, cette diminution et appauvrifiement de leur jus. 
3 0 , Que lorfqu’il s’eft trouve dans une piece de Cannes abandon nee (bonne 
terre cepenaant) quelque arbriffeau qui a pu fervir d’appuy a une canne flechee 
et aux jets fortis de fon 8 e et 9 e nceud (/, m , fig. x.). Ces jets ont donne cha- 
cun une canne beaucoup moins belle a la verite que celle dont ils fortoient, 
mais qui n’auroit fans doute eu befoin pour flecher dans fon terns, et donner 
enfuite d^autres petites Cannes, que d’etre appuyee comme celle qui l’avoit 
produite. 
J’ignore les obfervations d’apres lefquelies on peut pretendre que la canne a 
a beloin 
