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The Floral King. 29
humble flower; that flower had a mission from
the floral community at large, to repay Carl for
his ardent love for them, and to be the turning
point whence he should start on a continuous
and glorious career.
Being the protegé of the venerable dean, several
young students soon began to take private in-
structions from Linnzeus, who thus was soon
enabled to get himself both clothes and_ shoes.
A word from his patron sufficed to open the
doors of the aged Professor of Botany, Olof
‘Rudbeck, Funior, And when, towards the end
of 1729, Linnzeus had written a treatise upon
botany, inspired by the new light which his
genius threw upon science, Dean Celcius showed
this to his friend, the old Professor of Botany,
who from that moment became Linnzus’s par-
ticular patron, and likewise allowed him the free
use of his library, with particular permission to
study the learned professor’s own manuscripts,
and his exceptionally fine drawings of Swedish
native birds; added to which he was- appointed
tutor to Rudbeck’s young sons. Dean Celcius,
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