SLAVES WHO STOLE SEEDS.
The beautiful Botanic Gardens in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, contain over 50,000 specimens of vegetation. The chief attraction, however, is the great Palm Avenue. The main avenue is nearly half a mile long, and this is crossed by a shorter avenue. In the former there are about 14U palms, averaging 80 feet in height, ana the latter contains about the saane
number of palms, but only 70 feet in height.
The Mother Palm of Brazil is 115 feet high, and its greatest diameter h 4ft. 3in. It was planted in 1809 by Dom Joao, and it was the first one grown in Brazil.
It was decreed at the ,ime that every seed from the palm should he carefully saved, and after the avenue was completed the remainder of the seeds should be r-urnt.
The slaves, howeve". who theu worked in the gardens, sto.p l^ige numbers -of the seeds and sold them, and the palm was thus propagated throughout Brazil. *
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 7
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