  We prove that the dimension of the space of primitive Vassiliev invariants of
degree n grows - as n tends to infinity - faster than Exp(c Sqrt(n)) for any c
< Pi Sqrt (2/3).
  The proof relies on the use of the weight systems coming from the Lie algebra
gl(N). In fact, we show that our bound is - up to multiplication with a
rational function in n - the best possible that one can get with gl(N)-weight
systems.
