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The Floral King. 3
his uncle’s enthusiasm for the culture of Flora’s
children ; and no sooner had he struggled through
his academic period, subsisting on slender means,
and reached the goal of his ambition, that of
becoming curate in his native parish, than he
hastened to follow his excellent uncle’s example,
and planted a small garden at his little cottage
Rashult, allotted to him for a residence. To this
unpretentious little home, which boasted of no
luxury save the floral surroundings, Nils Linnzus
in 1706 brought his own rector’s daughter, Christina
Brodersonia, from the neighbouring manse as his
happy bride.
Here dwelt Love in a cottage, embowered by all
the darling flowers loving hands could plant and
tend. The young wife was equally delighted, as
she had never before seen a garden, for in the
sterile and stone-bound soil of Smaland, amongst
its forests and waters, few gardens to this day are
to be met. When autumn came and despoiled the
plantation of its manifold and variegated beauty,
her young heart grieved that the long Swedish
‘winter would intervene before spring would gladden
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