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18 _ The Floral King.
At last, after much importunity, and even tears,
Carl gained the day; and nothing now remained
but to get the certificate from the school. It was
framed in very quaint and significant words, and it
is curious that the trope of a tree, carried all
through, should have been applied to the future
Professor of Botany. It read as follows: ‘“ The
youths in schools may be likened unto young sap-
lings in a plantation, where it sometimes happens,
although seldom, that young trees—despite the
great care bestowed upon them—will not improve
by being engrafted, but continue like wild untrained
stems, and when they are finally removed and
transplanted, they change their wild nature and
become beautiful trees, that bear excellent fruit.
In which respect, and no other, this youth is now
promoted to the University, where, perhaps, he
may come to a clime that will favour his further
development.”
With this questionable recommendation Carb
Linnzus went to Lund, the southern University _
of Sweden, in 1727. His parents ‘thought it
desirable that he should proceed to this seat of
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