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erected by amici and discipuli: a sufficient sum
was quickly raised for its erection, and the
King, Gustavus the Third, himself brought his
royal gift. The projector of the subscription
then explained to him, that the purposed
inscription was, that the monument was erected
only by friends and disciples, and King Gustavus
answered: "And am not I also one of Linnæus’s
disciples?"
The monument was raised, and a hall built
in the botanical garden, under splendid trees.
There stands his bust; but the remembrance
of himself, his home, his own little garden –
where is it most vivid? Lead us thither.
On yonder side of Fyri’s rivulet, where the
street forms a declivity, where red-painted,
wooden houses boast their living grass roofs,
as fresh as if they were planted terraces, lies
Linnæus’s garden. We stand within it. How
solitary! how overgrown! Tall nettles shoot
up between the old, untrimmed, rank hedges.
No water-plants appear more in that little,
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