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lenius, from London by Collinson, Miller^ and Cates- 

 by, from Leyden by Gronovius, from Amsterdam 

 by Burmann, and from Petersburg by Gmelin and 

 Ammann. He even received seeds from Louis XV. ; 

 and the Baron Bjilke brought him from Russia a 

 great number of plants, collected in Siberia by 

 JMesserschmidt, Gerber, Heller, Heinzelman, and 

 others, most of them not previously described. From 

 Holland he also obtained the Musa, a tree which 

 he considered himself extremely fortunate in pos- 

 sessing. 



Six years after the restoration of the garden, he 

 published a description of it under the title of the 

 Hortus Upsaliensis. At this time, the number of 

 exotic plants which it contained amounted to 1100. 

 A learned traveller, who visited it in 1771^. writes 

 as follows : — " An iron gate of excellent workman- 

 ship leads to it from the road. At the top of the gate 

 are displayed the Swedish arms, and those of Count 

 Gyllenborg, who so zealously promoted its restitution. 

 Within, a large court presents itself to view ; on the 

 right stands the house of Linnaeus, who is the director 

 of the garden, and on the left are some other build- 

 ings. A straight avenue leads by another gate to the 

 garden, which is separated from the court by a neat 

 wooden railing. The garden itself is laid out in a 

 superb style. The greater part consists of two large 

 tracts of ground, one of them containing the peren- 

 nial, the other the annual plants. Each of these 

 tracts is divided into forty-four beds, surrounded 

 with a low hedge and small doors. The plant-house 

 is divided into the greenhouse, the hothouse, and 

 the thriving-house, which form the northern side ; 

 the gardener's cottage, which is on the southern ; the 



