THROUGH THE FIELDS 

 WITH LINNAEUS 



CHAPTER XIII. 



AN OVERDOSE OF PROSPERITY. 



Ah, but the bride, meantime do you think she sees it as he does ? 

 But for the steady fore-sense of a freer and larger existence, 

 Think you that man could consent to be circumscribed here into 



action ? 



But for assurance within of a limitless ocean divine, o'er 

 Whose great tranquil depths unconscious the wind-tost surface 

 Breaks into ripples of trouble that come and change and endure not 

 But that in this, of a truth, we have our being, and know it, 

 Think you we men could submit to live and move as we do here ? 

 Ah, but the women God bless them 1 they don't think at all 



about it. A. H. CLOUGH. 



LINNAEUS returned to Holland, where he enriched 

 Clifford's garden with many living plants, and his 

 herbarium with many dried ones procured in England. 1 

 He had much to see to in planting the newly-acquired 

 treasures and in studying their habits. Space began to 

 fail him, for all the wide extent of the Hartecamp 

 garden. Plants when well cared-for take up so much 



1 Diary. The Cliff ortian Hortus Siccw is now in the Banksian 

 Herbarium at the British Museum : it was purchased by Sir Joseph 

 Banks for 251. 



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