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LVI. On the Propagation of Zamias. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. By Mr. Francis Faldermann, Chief Gar- 

 dener in the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburgh, 

 Corresponding Member of the Horticultural Society. 



Read August 15, 1826. 



Sir, 



H aving lately made a discovery with regard to the pro- 

 pagation of Palms, I consider it my duty to inform the 

 Horticultural Society of it, trusting that it may prove of 

 considerable utility to cultivators. 



We had in the Imperial Botanic Garden a fine healthy 

 plant of Zamia horrida, which suffered in the inundation of 

 November, 1824. Last autumn it began to sicken, to my 

 great sorrow ; it then lost its roots, and was to all appearance 

 quite dead ; the leaves and heart became entirely rotten, so 

 that it appeared like a tube, and was only kept together by 

 the hard scales formed by the bases of the leaves, many even 

 of which were beginning to decay. 



In this state I took the plant out of the pot, though with- 

 out hopes of being able to save it, and having kept it for a 



