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about twenty inches high before each cut- ting; which gives upwards of ten fect for the growth of one year;—confider- ably more than double the height that it would have reached if it had not been cut at all, And although it be acknow- ledged, that the more fucculent fhoots, obtained in confequence of frequent cut- ting, would not contain fuch a quantity of folid matter, as an equal weight of the better maturated ftalks would have done; yet it does not feem at all probable, that the deficiency arifing from this caufe, would nearly counterbalance the furplus quantity obtained by frequent cutting. This is an object, among many others, that cannot be‘ determined exactly with- out accurate expe=riments.

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