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The Floral King. 35
the bugles sounded triumphant notes, and while
Linnzus hastened to the Botanical Garden, there
to transplant the rarest spoils from field and
forest, the happy students used to decorate the
portals of his home with oaken leaves, or in
his study erect a floral throne for their chosen
monarch.
The news of Carl’s success soon reached his
parents in their rural home in the south of
Sweden, and his mother was now no longer
sorry that he had spent so much time in pasting
dried flowers in his herbarium. She had thought
he never would become anything more than an
ambulance assistant, but both she and _ her
husband now felt highly pleased to know that
Carl, at only three-and-twenty years of age, dis-
charged the duties of a Professor of Botany.
But the success of genius depends in a great
measure upon the never tiring energy, diligence,
and application, of its fortunate possessor, and
like all successful great geniuses, Carl Linnzus
was indefatigable. His days were devoted to
his pupils, the number of whom were ever
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