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holds the botanical chair at Upsala, says that there was 

 a botanical garden upon the hill in Linnaeus's time. 

 Thus, he may have had the direction of the castle garden 

 up there. This would reconcile all differences of state- 

 ment. 



There is a nice residence, a long low stone house, at 

 the entrance of the present botanical garden on the 

 hill, where Professor Fries now lives, and which is the 

 official residence of the botanical professor, not far 

 from the fine Linnsean lecture-hall, built in the style 

 of a classical temple, opening with large bronze doors 

 at the head of a flight of steps. The marble sitting 

 statue of Linnaeus, by Bystrom, holds the place of 

 honour. 



The small enclosure by the house in the lower town, 

 called Linne's house, on the other side of the river, 

 which is here rendered almost stagnant by a series of 

 locks and weirs, is part of the Linneanska Tradgarden, 

 Linnaous's botanical garden, which the guide-book says 

 may conveniently be visited on the way to Gamla (old) 

 Upsala. Truly it will not take long to inspect these 

 grounds, for the private garden is merely a small oblong 

 pleasure ground behind the house, with a grass-plot 

 surrounded by a double row of cut lime trees. Though 

 this garden would have had a very different aspect in 

 Linnasus's time, it is too small to have ever been a 

 regular botanical garden. If this was really Linnaeus's 

 official arid not his private residence, the former 

 botanical garden must have extended over much of that 



