88 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



The Enkoping road, by which Carl entered the town, 

 leads down the hill directly through the group of 

 university buildings. The ground-plan of Upsala looks 

 imposing on the map ; but as all the ' new town ' is as 

 yet unbuilt, we see it pretty much as Carl Linnaeus saw 

 it on the day he entered Upsala. 



Was it an omen that the first person he knew by 

 sight was Eosen, his antagonist at Lund ? The youths 

 met coldly and soon parted. Rosen and Linnaeus were 

 about as unsociable as Swedish milestones. Carl gazed 

 with more interest on the town itself; but, neglecting 

 the fine cathedral, he flew to the botanical garden not 

 then what it is now, and vastly different to what 

 Linnaeus himself made it and he thought it in- 

 significant. 



The Botanic Garden now has well laid out walks 

 and alleys, tall screens of dipt limes and lower hedges 

 of hornbeam and other close-grown greenery sheltering 

 the various gardens, and a fine botanical lecture-room, 

 built in classic style with a peristyle, within which the 

 object that first attracts the visitor is the marble statue 

 of Linnaeus by Bystrom. The professor of Botany 

 resides near the entrance to the garden. The present 

 garden is on the high but sheltered ground behind the 

 castle ; the botanic garden that Linnaeus saw was on the 

 level ground on the opposite side of the river. 



Disappointed in the garden, Carl, impetuous in all his 

 ways, flew up what is now the Carolina Park, and away 

 by its steep alleys to the hill whereon the castle stands. 



