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The Floral King. 163
‘No garden is better planned, no other surpasses it
in the numbers of rare plants, and no other has ever
produced so many different kinds of seeds, although
it is situated in the coldest climate of any Botanical
garden in Europe.” Linnzeus’ house stood adjoining
the garden.
‘Like in the youth of Linnzeus, the botanical excur-
sions presented a lively picture on his resuming the
duties, for he writes in his diary about himself:
when he every summer botanized, he had a couple
of hundred auditors, who gathered plants and insects,
made observations, shot birds, wrote protocols. And
how from 7 o’clock in the morning till g o’clock at
night, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, they had
botanized, returned to town with flower-decked
hats, and with kettledrums and bugles, accompanied
their leader through the whole town to the garden.
Several foreigners and gentlemen from Stockholm
participated in these excursions of Linnzeus. But
then Science had just reached its height.
Professor SATHERBERG says :—
“ Linneus’ Systeme Nature comprises the three
kingdoms in nature, the animal world, the vegetable
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