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terrace between rocks. It was occupied by a mode- 

 rately large larch-tree, probably planted in the time 

 of Linnaeus, when this tree was rare in Sweden. A 

 pleasure-ground was laid out near the dwelling-house, 

 in which, although now in a wild state, traces are still 

 visible of regular plantations, paths, and bowers. A 

 number of memorial tablets direct the visitor's atten- 

 tion to every tree that Linnaeus had planted, and to 

 those seats on which he reposed with most pleasure. A 

 circle of poplars, a hedge of buckthorns, 1 and some 

 plants of sycamore were the only remaining traces of 

 the long-departed planter. Probably this is the spot 

 which Linnasus calls his Siberian garden at Hammarby, 

 and where he mentions that he cultivated five hundred 

 kinds of seeds sent him by the Empress of Russia. 

 The high grass was intermixed with a beautiful fumi- 

 tory 2 growing completely wild here. There were also 

 the Anemone ranunculoides, and several other plants 

 rare in this country.' Little or nothing of this is now 

 visible ; in the last half-century the place has relapsed 

 into the ordinary Upland landscape. Professor Fries, 

 of Upsala, says the Siberian garden at Hammarby is 

 now a wilderness ; but some years ago several plants 

 were yet remaining that had been there in the time of 

 the great naturalist. Even to this day one may see 

 Sempervivum glohiferum, Crepis sibirica, Asarum, and 

 some others. We gathered a few of his favourite purple 

 anemones from the rocks in memory of the great 

 1 Ukamnus. 2 Fitmaria nobilis. 



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