3 o8 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



were worth making. The ground about here is broken 

 and uneven, with fir trees on the hillocks, all of which 

 gives it a picturesqueness Holland generally lacks. 

 The next house to Hartecamp, which is now one of a 

 series of villas (!), has a lodge with statues and other 

 ornaments, in the questionable taste of the eighteenth 

 century. Near this is an obelisk to the memory of 

 Count Floris van Zoon van Holland, and others who 

 fought and fell with him. The way still passes between 

 gay villa gardens with a woodland background. The 

 character of the country is quite different from what it 

 is about Leyden, though it seems to be only reclaimed 

 dunes. This road, lined here with florists' bulb gardens, 

 enters Haarlem close by a tall modern church, a turnpike, 

 and the Flora Park, whence the tramway goes directly 

 through the town to the railway-station. In Linnaeus's 

 time all the Haarlem world was talking of the great 

 organ erected in the cathedral in 1.735, this very date, 

 at the town's expense. Linnseus never mentions it, 

 but, as we know, he was not fond of music. 



In the Teyler library and museum is the original 

 portrait of Linnaeus in his Lapland dress, which was 

 painted from life at Clifford's. Several copies were exe- 

 cuted, and a print ] of it is in the Linnaean Society's 

 rooms in London. It represents him with boots of 

 reindeer-skin ; about his body is a girdle, from which is 

 suspended a Laplander's drum, a needle to make nets, 

 a straw snuff-box, a cartridge-box and a knife, a grey 

 1 Not a copy, as has been erroneously asserted. 



