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104. The Floral King.
also in court dress. Below the picture was an
inscription, ‘ Linné expliquant devant la cour son
system de —.’ I don’t recollect what was the
word, or if it was Latin, but I fancy the meaning
ended with ‘fleurs.’ You might understand how
small the figures were, and what an exceedingly
fine miniature the whole picture was; it was a
chef d’euvve. But it was also honoured with a place
in Marie Amelie’s (the queen of Louis Philippe)
boudoir, and remaining in the same place in the
time of the Empress. Of late years I have not
seen it.”
Linnzus was highly esteemed by the King of
France, for when Gustavus III. was in Paris, says
Linnzus’ German biographer Stover, “he was
congratulated by Louis XV. for the famous man
his country possessed, and he had the choicest
plants gathered for him in the parks of Trianon.”
Linnzus himself writes regarding this, “‘ Carl Tr.
Scheffer writes from Paris that ‘ during my sojourn
at Versailles, the King of France has several times
asked me about you, and besides the favour with
which he regarded you personally, he has also, with
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