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that the officials here appreciated him is shown by the 

 Chelsea garden being the first in England arranged 

 after the Linnaean system. 'Miller allowed me to 

 gather in his Chelsea garden, and gave me, besides, 

 many dried plants, gathered in South America by 

 Houston,' says Linnaeus, and he adds, i The English are 

 certainly the most generous people on earth.' 



There is still a flavour of poetry about Chelsea, as 

 if poets and philosophers had always dwelt there and 

 left their impress on the place. There are memories too 

 of Tudor sovereigns, for it was during several reigns 

 the resort of the Court and fashion, and ' Ye Old Bun 

 House' and Don Saitero and his tavern-museum in 

 Cheyne Walk. There is, in the British Museum, a 

 long printed catalogue of the rarities to be seen at Don 

 Saltero's coffee-house, all in glass cases numbered a 

 parent of the South Kensington Museum. The Don 

 was a naturalist, so Linnaeus would certainly have 

 visited his collection, and not superciliously, like the 



* Spectator,' who talks of the ingenious Don Saitero in 

 a pitying tone of banter. Our own generation has 

 known Turner, George Eliot, Rossetti, and Carlyle, and 

 many other lights, on Chelsea river bank. 



The very public-houses at Chelsea and Fulham still 

 have the pretty signs they had in Linnseus's time the 

 1 Hand and Flower,' ' the Rising Sun,' the ' Daffodil,' the 



* Brown Cow,' the 'Three Jolly Gardeners,' the 'World's 

 End,' &c. ; and various Puritan sentiments, as ' God 

 encompasseth us ' and others ; besides Morland's own 



