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2 The Floral King.
cherished linden tree. One called himself Lindelius,
another Tiliander, and so on. One poor young
rustic, Nils Ingemar’s son, from the neighbouring
homestead of Jonsboda, was sent to school at the
expense of his uncle on his mother’s side, the Swen
Tiliander anent, and who had now become rector
of an adjacent parish church. This young boy
thinking of his well-beloved linden tree, under whose
branches he had been wont to hold sweet converse
with nature, and through nature with his God, now
on starting in life with hopes of becoming a pastor
himself in his own parish,—the laudable ambition
of the sons of well-to-do peasants common to this
day in Sweden;—this boy assumed the name of
Linnzus.
Swen Tiliander had in his youth lived for some
years in Germany, and there acquired a love for
flowers and some knowledge of horticulture. When
he became rector of a rural parish in Smaland, he
found great enjoyment in planning a pretty little
garden at his rectory, and stocking it with rare and
beautiful flowers from abroad. In this garden young
Nils Linnzus spent many happy hours, and caught
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