years after the death of Ray, in 1707, LITTLE 

 was born a baby who was destined to find JOURNEYS, 

 biology a chaos, and leave it a cosmos. 

 Linnaeus did for botany what Galileo had 

 done for astronomy. John Ray was only a 

 John the Baptist. 

 Carl von Linne, or Carolus Linnaeus as he preferred to 

 be called, was born in an obscure village in the Province 

 of Smaland, Sweden. His father was a clergyman, 

 passing rich on forty pounds a year. His mother was 

 only eighteen years old when she bore him, and his 

 father had just turned twenty-one. It was a poor 

 parish, and one of the deacons explained that they 

 could not afford a real preacher, so they hired a boy. 

 QCarl tells in his journal of remembering how when 

 he was but four years old his father would lead his 

 congregation out through the woods and all seated on 

 the grass, the father would tell the people about the 

 plants and herbs and how to distinguish them. 

 Back of the parsonage there was a goodly garden 

 where the young pastor and his wife worked many 

 happy hours. When Carl was eight years of age a cor- 

 ner of this garden was set apart for his very own. He 

 impressed several neighbor children into the service 

 and they carried flat stones from the brook to wall in 

 this miniature farm this botanical garden. 

 The child that has n't a flower bed or garden of its 

 ownest own is being cheated out of its birthright. 

 The evolution of the child mirrors the evolution of the 

 race. And as the race has passed through the savage, 



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