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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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The Floral King. 105

much interest, inquired about the condition of your
botanical garden. His Majesty has himself
collected seeds, which he desired might reach you,
and as he has expressed himself, ‘I thought that
this would afford the Archiater (Linnzus) pleasure.’
He has commissioned me to forward them to you
sir.”

They consisted of 130 different kinds; the King
also sent him living plants.

In another place Linnzus mentions that Louis
XV. had adopted his method for the garden at
Trianon. He further relates that after he had seen
the most remarkable things in Paris “‘he went to
Rouen and thence sailed with a pressing wind and
storm to the Cattegat, when the wind immediately
turned, and he landed at Helsingborg, whence he
journeyed to visit his aged father in Stenbrohult.”
His mother had died in 1734, before he left for
Holland. He landed on his return to his country in
September, 1738, after only three years absence,
during which he had become exceedingly famous
abroad.

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