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is a great Tree of this Kind in the Garden of 
the Royal ‘Academy. ‘It has flowered and 
bore Fruit thefe thirty Years; but the Fruit 
never ripened, and when planted, it did not 
vegetate. The Palm-Tree, as you know, is 
a Planta Divecia, that is, one of thofe in which 
the male and female Parts of Generation are 
upon different Plants. We having therefore 
no male Plants, the Flowers of our female 
were never impregnated with the Farina of 
the Male. There is a male Plant:of. this 
Kind in a Garden at Leipfic, twenty German 
Miles from Berlia. We procured from 
thence, in 4pril, 1749, a Branch of male 
Fiowers, and fufpended it over our female 
ones, and our Experiment fucceeded fo well, 
that our Palm-Tree produced more than an 
Hundred perfectly ripe Fruit; from which 
we have. already eleven. young Palm-Trees. 
This. Experiment was repeated. laft Year, 
and our Palm-Tree bore above two Thoufand 
ripe. Fruit. As 1 do mot remember a :like 
Experiment, I. thought it convenient to 
‘ mention it to yau; and; if you think proper, 
he pleafed to communicate it to the Royal 
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society. 
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