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fedlion under fourteen or fifteen months. Thofe of 
which I have been giving an account feem very pofi- 
tively to eftablifh that, confidered with regard to its 
greateji ufefulnefs , the cane is an annual plant producing 
by the root', confequently, the mode of cultivation which 
agrees bed: with it, that which will anfwer bell to the 
planter, will be that which, confidering thefe as the two 
capital points to be attended to, connedts them the beft 
with the neceflary influence the feafons of the climate 
in which the cane grows will have upon it. Now I truft 
that in thefe two refpedts my method will Hand the teft 
of examination. 
It remains to fpeak of the hiftory of the cane accord- 
ing to the two methods. 
Hiftory 
befoin de 14 a 15 mois pouretre dans fa perfe&ion: celles queje viens de pre- 
fenter me paroiffent etablir d’une fa§on bien pofttive que relativement a fon plus 
grand degre d'utilite la canne ejl une plante annuelle , et vivace par fa racine 9 
qu’ainfi le fyfteme de culture qui lui convient, le fyfteme le plus avantageux au 
cultivateur fera celuy qui aura ces deux points pour bale, et qui les combinera 
le mieux avec les effets que doivent operer fur elle, les diiferentes faifons qui 
regnent dans les climats ou on la cultive, et j’ofe croire que mon fyfteme, peut 
foutenir l’examen a ces deux egards. 
II me refte a parler de Fhiftoire de la canne dans les deux fyftemes. 
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