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The Floral King. 241
Linnzus’s work, for every man must be judged
according to the times in which he lived and worked,
and particularly so a scientific man, when every
century produces new progressive systems that
supersede one another, the products of the evolution
of time.
Dr. Sachs maintains that Rued Jac Camerarius’s
sexual system had long preceded Linnzeus’s, and so
it had, but many observations had been made, then
as hastily forgotten, and long afterwards been brought
forth as new discoveries in science, and Agardh
reminds us that ‘already the ancients knew the
circumstances that necessitated male flowers to
exist in the proximity of the female so as to obtain
fruits from the date-palm, the cultivated fig-tree,
etc.” and that ‘“‘already four years before Linnzeus
became a student at Lund he had in the garden of
Stenbrohult made experiments with a cucumber-
plant, which he had deprived of its male flowers,
and then found that the female flowers did not
fructify.” Linnzus himself refers to the writings of
Camerarius, and to the sexu plantarum of Vaillant
which he read in 1729, as well as ‘“‘ The Nuptials of
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