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at their ripest to the beloved work, making genius a 

 reason for work.' 



At Upsala Linnaeus had charge of the botanical 

 garden, materia medica, and the teaching of dietetics, 

 hygiene, and natural history is general. i He now gave 

 up the general practice of medicine, attending medically, 

 on his establishment at Upsala, only his friends and the 

 poor; but he ever paid great attention to that noble 

 and intricate science ' ; and, though with his inventive 

 genius he was too theoretical and hypothetical, he has 

 thrown many hints and gleams of light in the path of 

 succeeding physicians. He concentrated his intelli- 

 gence on natural science. During the rest of his life his 

 head-quarters were at Upsala. The botanical garden at 

 Upsala had degenerated into a mere tract of pasture- 

 ground. Linnaeus created it anew and ' raised a temple 

 to Flora.' l His head gardener was one of the first in 

 Europe Derrick Neitzel, a German, who had been em- 

 ployed by Clifford at Hartecamp. The two worked vali- 

 antly, and succeeded in forming another Hartecamp in 

 Sweden. Again they had the gratification of seeing the 

 Amaryllis formosissima, the gem of Hartecamp, in bloom ; 

 it flowered for the first time in Sweden, in April 1742. 



In 1742 Linnaeus had 2,000 plants in his garden, of 

 which this amaryllis was the queen. Six years after the 

 re-establishment of the garden, in 1748, he published its 

 description. The exotic plants then numbered 1,100. 

 The plants indigenous to Sweden and Norway made a 

 1 Stoever. 



