rattoons

Then when the rains returned new shoots, "rattoons," would sprout from the old roots to yield

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime 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.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Details such as the variation in pace caused by the number of rattoons

Chapter 7 1994

On the deep soil of Cuba the cane rattoons, it is said, not five or six, but forty years in succession.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime 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.

Roughing It, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872

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.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

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.

Roughing It 1871

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.

The Hawaiian Archipelago 1867

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

Roughing It, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872