Rattoons

Word RATTOONS
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The word "rattoons" in example sentences

Then when the rains returned new shoots, "rattoons," would sprout from the old roots to yield ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

The planters can plant pretty much when they please, or not plant at all, for two or three years, the only difference in the latter case being that the rattoons which spring up after the cutting of the former crop are smaller in bulk. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Details such as the variation in pace caused by the number of rattoons ❋ Unknown (1994)

On the deep soil of Cuba the cane rattoons, it is said, not five or six, but forty years in succession. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the routine of work, each January was devoted mainly to planting fresh canes in the fields from which the stubble canes or second rattoons had recently been harvested. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

Almost everywhere on the island of Hawaii sugar-cane matures in twelve months, both rattoons and plant, and although it ought to be taken off as soon as it tassels, no doubt, it is not absolutely necessary to do it until about four months afterward. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

-- The first crop is called "plant cane;" subsequent crops which spring from the original roots, without replanting, are called "rattoons."] ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

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