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as a park lodge as well as if the free peasant's family 

 had been his own dependents : so much was he beloved 

 by the neighbourhood that all were eager for the 

 honour of serving him. To the younger guests his 

 smiles were so kind and so benevolent, and he would 

 utter so many good wishes for their happiness and use- 

 fulness, that they left him with a sense of having been 

 bathed in a bounteous, overflowing nature, and as if 

 some of the gifts of that rare intelligence had been be- 

 queathed to themselves in the hand-pressure at parting. 

 In the spring of 1834 M. Pontin, the Swedish 

 royal physician, wrote a graphic description of Ham- 

 marby, translated in London's ' Gardeners' Magazine ' 

 for May 1838. Before leaving Upsala he paid a re- 

 spectful visit to the only remaining branch of Linnaeus's 

 family, his daughter Louisa von Linne, who, although 

 about eighty years of age, was still cheerful and in 

 good health. ' She gave her visitors the key of the 

 rural dwelling which was the favourite retreat of 

 Linnaous. The road to this place runs through the 

 well-known King's Meadow, mentioned in the works 

 of Linnseus, which was completely covered with the 

 varied shades of the purple fritillaries. Three colours 

 generally predominated, blueish-purple, pale red, and 

 white.' I will not transcribe M. Pontin's account of 

 Hammarby, which reads to me somewhat inaccurate, 

 through his careful notes having been translated and 

 edited by someone who had never visited Hammarby. 

 Thus, like most records of Linnasus, it is a curious 



