68 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 



He married at twenty- seven, and his father-in-law seems 

 to have put small faith in his botany, and advised him 

 to apply himself more exclusively to the theoretical and 

 practical study of physic. After his marriage he made 

 money as a doctor in Stockholm, and it is not otherwise 

 than interesting to know that when attacked with very 

 severe gout at forty-three, and the doctors who attended 

 him began to despair of his recovery, he cured himself by 

 eating nothing but Strawberries for a time. Afterwards 

 he kept the gout entirely in check by taking a Strawberry 

 cure every summer. In several ways the book gives an 

 interesting picture of life in the last century. Linnaeus's 

 books are characterised by religious sentiment, neverthe- 

 less they had the misfortune of being considered at Eome 

 as heretical and materialistic productions. In 1758 they 

 were inserted in the catalogue of forbidden books ; no one 

 durst either print or sell them under pain of having every 

 copy confiscated or publicly burnt. This proceeding 

 was implicitly condemned during the papacy of the 

 excellent and truly enlightened Ganganelli, Pope Clement 

 XIV. Linnaeus himself mentions this occurrence in a letter 

 to the Chevalier Thunberg in the following terms : ' The 

 Pope, who fifteen years ago ordered those of my works 

 that should be imported into his dominions to be burnt, 

 has dismissed the Professor of Botany who did not 

 understand my system, and put another in his place, who 

 is to give public lectures according to my method and 

 theory.' 



1797. ' The Botanist's Eepository, by H. Andrews.' 

 This is a rare book, I believe, and ought to be in ten 

 quarto volumes. I have only the first eight. It contains 

 coloured engravings only of new and rare plants, many of 

 which cannot, I think, have flowered in England, as there 

 are several Proteas, which are exceedingly difficult of 

 cultivation under glass, Andrews' great fondness for 



