LINNZAN ADDRESS—GREENE. 709 
as one who contributed much to the advancement of what is now com- 
monly spoken of as applied botany in general. 
Of the real merits of Linneus they know little who, observing that 
his classes and orders are become obsolete, and that neither his idea 
of a genus is that of more recent botany, nor his conception of a spe- 
cies, conclude that his figure must by and by grow dim on the horizon 
of botanical history. I say, they who know little of his real merits 
may give place to such forebodings. But they who fully realize what 
he accomplished in so many different directions to the great and last- 
ing advantage of our science will be rather disposed to wish that an 
equal of Linnzus might soon be born; and might think it well that 
the natal day of the matchless Swede should be held sacred not only 
once in each century, but a hundred times in every hundred years. 
