LINNEZAN ADDRESS—GREENE. 689 
Bachman family lived, so those forebears of Linneus who, on rising 
to the rank of gentry, took the Greco-Latin name Tiliander, chose 
that improved appellation in allusion to an object in the landscape 
near their home. That object was a remarkably large and ancient 
linden tree, a tree of special note all over that part of the country. 
Tiliander, Lind-tree-man, or, more in brief, Linnman. In Swedish it 
would be Lindman. So these two learned brothers, who became the 
head of the Swedish family of the Tilianders, chose a botanical name, 
incidentally presaging the botanical halo that was to glorify a future 
scion of their stock under the same name somewhat altered. Now if 
the name Tiliander was prophetic incidentally, it had not been chosen 
accidentally. 
The Rev. Sven Tiliander, uncle and foster father of the father 
of Linnzus, was a devoted lover of trees and plants. It was that 
passion for botany which determined his taking the new and classic- 
sounding family name from the great linden tree. At the time of his 
taking his nephew Nils Ingemarsson into his family to make of him 
if possible a scholar and a Lutheran priest, he had extensive orchards 
and gardens to the care and improvement of which he was enthusi- 
astically devoted. This enthusiasm for such things became con- 
tagious in the case of his nephew Nils, insomuch that the boy found 
delight in going with his uncle and helping him in orchard and 
garden. Twenty years or so afterwards, when this nephew, now a 
learned graduate and assistant minister of a parish, as the Rev. Nils 
Linneus—no longer Nils Ingemarsson—he was so deeply imbued 
with the love of the beautiful things of the plant world that he began 
the establishment of orchard and gardens on the parish farm when 
his residence was established. A word here as to his new name 
Linneus, which had now displaced that peasant’s name, Ingemarsson, 
to which he had been born. Reared and educated along with his first 
cousins, the Tiliander boys, it may be assumed the whole family may 
have thought it better that, as scholar and gentleman, he should take 
some other name than Tiliander. At all events, and quite as if in 
grateful love of his uncle and cousins, he took a name precisely the 
equivalent of theirs—the name of Linneus. It is not quite as elegant 
in its construction as Tiliander, but its meaning is just the same. 
It is another way of turning Lindman into Latin. And so Nils 
Ingemarsson, by changing his name to Linneus, paid high compli- 
ment to that uncle and benefactor, Sven Tiliander, to whom he 
owed so very much, commemorated again that ornament of the 
northern landscape, the great linden tree, and supplied to all scientific 
posterity the illustrious and immortal name Linneus. In view of 
this, that the most signal and lasting service that the greatest Lin- 
neus rendered botany was the reform he wrought in the Latin 
nomenclature of plants, the derivation of his own name, its botanical 
