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The Floral King. 75.
child of the Flora of the North, with its pale carna-
tion colour and delicious fragrance, invariably grew
two upon one stem, a loving couple enjoying a floral
sylvan life together. Carl, in his journey south,
visited his home at Stenbrohult, where everything
was as of yore, with the exception that his loving
mother was dead and his father much aged of late.
The old man grieved that he could not assist his.
son with any money for his foreign sojourn, for few
students ever ventured to Holland to take their
degree with less pecuniary means to rely upon for
sustenance; but Carl Linnzus was, nevertheless,
full of hope and confidence. He carried very little
of the magic gold in his knapsack, but he had a
mine of wealth in his learning, and magic in his
genius, and he took with him the manuscript
draughts for many great works, the which he had
conceived during his three years in Upsala. He
has himself given us a list of them, the length and
importance of which certainly is most astounding,
and naturally forces the thought upon us, how few,
even of the gifted sons of earth, have ever done the
like in so short a space of time.
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