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method.' l Now that he had formed his own system, he 

 seems to have given up all intention of publishing this 

 his earliest work. Linnaeus thus advertises the MS. of 

 his second book: ' Upsala. January 1732. A student 

 of medicine and natural history at this university, of 

 the name of Carl Linnaeus, takes great pains to repre- 

 sent these two sciences, and botany likewise, in a better 

 light, and to render them more nourishing. The foreign 

 herbs and plants, which are cultivated either in the 

 fields or gardens of Upland, have already been enrolled 

 by him in a little work which appeared last December, 

 1731, called Hortus Uplandicus." ' 



In this book he speaks with praise of his father's 

 garden at Stenbrohult on account of the great number 

 of rare plants in it. 



Pulteney, in a footnote, says, ' Stoever mentions a 

 work of Linnaeus called " Hortus Uplandicus," which is 

 supposed to be the first in order of time of all his pro- 

 ductions ; but as the date of it is 1 730 2 it would not have 

 been earlier than the work mentioned above (" Spolia 

 Botanica "). The arrangement is stated to be founded 

 on the doctrine of a sexual difference. I do not find any 

 mention of the " Hortus Uplandicus " in the catalogue of 

 Linnaeus's works given in his own diary.' ' Which,' had 

 Stoever but seen the diary, he would comment thus in 

 his polite, roundabout, and long-winded way of learned 



1 Pulteney. 



2 This book was written two years before the advertisement of 

 it appeared. 



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