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with his uncle and helping him in orchard 

 and garden. Twenty years or so afterwards, 

 this nephew, now a learned graduate and assist- 

 ant minister of a parish, as the Reverend Nils 

 Linna3us no longer Nils Ingemarsson had 

 become so deeply imbued with the love of the 

 beautiful things of the plant world, that he 

 began the establishment of orchard and gar- 

 dens on the parish farm when his residence 

 was established. A word here as to his new 

 name Linnseus, 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 Linna3us. 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 

 Linnaeus, paid high compliment to that uncle 

 and benefactor, Sven Tiliander, to whom he 

 owed so very much, commemorated again 



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