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60 The Floral King.
“The short time I passed there rendered me
more than a hundred kinds of plants, which were
unknown to the greatest botanists. I doubt not
but that several hundred more will be found by
those who here would have opportunity to search
through hills and valleys, and thus be the means
of increasing our Natural History, to the admiration
of the learned world.
“T have been able to get plants, Caput bone spei,
from Japan, from Peru and the Brazils to our
Swedish Hortus Academicus, but as yet not one
from our own Alps, although I am a Swede myself.
If I could obtain them, so as to propagate them,
I could easily for the superfluous get in exchange
Palms, Muse, Radix Ninsi and all the rarest
plants from the choicest gardens in Europe.
“ Radix Archangelice, Radix Gentiane, Radix
Rhodig, grow on our own Alps, are then gathered
by the Norwegians, sold to the Dutch, then to the
Germans and by the Germans to the Swedes; why
then could not our parsons as well sell them to us,
and thereby make some money? If any one of
them would make a plantation of Gentiana, I am
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