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petals, three outer and three inner, round a tassel ot 

 green stamens, and innumerable yeljow anthers, must 

 have been particularly noticed by Linnaeus, whose 

 system was well-nigh bewildered by it. The flower is 

 set in a fringed collar round the stem, like an anemone, 

 to which family it belongs. Indeed, Linnaeus especially 

 mentions it in Lapland and again in Oland. A single 

 blue hepatica is still in flower how late ! and plenty of 

 a sort of strawberry geranium nearly the same that we 

 cockneys know and buy at 2d. a root in Covent Garden. 

 The people are hurrying to fit up the restaurant chalet. 

 A few more days like this and tourists will throng to 

 Oland and the natives will reap the harvest of its beauty. 

 Baedeker says, however, that few tourists come here. 

 Perhaps so ; but I think plenty of visitors come from the 

 Swedish mainland, if only for the day. 



Two little Oland girls, with black silk kerchiefs^on 

 their heads, came from one of the upland villages to 

 have a peep at the castle while we were there. Shyly as 

 they looked at us, we seemed to interest them more than 

 the large ruin itself. 



There is an old print of Borgholm Castle in 1634, 

 drawn by J. H. Rhezelius. It has various towers and 

 spires, after the manner of the Kremlin, and Oland's 

 recognised (and conventional) landscape, a road by a low 

 stone wall stretching away and sloping up to a line of 

 distant windmills, and other scattered windmills in the 

 far horizon. Oland grows and exports a goodly quantity 

 of corn, principally wheat. Borgholm Castle is first 



