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low ground by the river which is now mapped out, but 

 not yet built, as the new suburb of Upsala. 



Professor E. Fries says of the old Linnasan garden 

 in which Linnaeus made his observations, 4 The aspect 

 of this garden, with its small and unpretending green- 

 houses, is, upon the whole, very well preserved ; but the 

 inner arrangements have been changed by the removal 

 of the hedges, the transforming of the flowerbeds into 

 grass-plots, and the filling up of the ponds. As the 

 old garden was situated in a low and swampy tract, the 

 new one has been formed in a higher locality to the 

 south of the town. But the old garden still retains its 

 historical interest ; trees are there shown, planted by 

 the hand of Linnaeus. At present it is let out as a 

 place of meeting for the students of the East Gothland 

 nation.' 



Sir J. E. Smith says, in 1742 Linnaeus undertook 

 the reform of the Upsala garden : a new greenhouse was 

 erected ; an old house of stone, built by the great 

 Olaus Rudbeck, who, having suffered so much by fire, 

 would not admit a bit of wood into the structure, ' was 

 converted,' as Linnaeus says, ' from an owl's nest into a 

 lodging fit for the professor.' 



In 1743 the garden, with its long low range of 

 architectural greenhouses, was in a state to receive 

 the copious supplies of exotics which Linnaeus, in con- 

 sequence of his extensive foreign correspondence, was 

 enabled to procure. He was this year chosen member 

 of the academy at Montpellier. He became secretary 



