LINN_XUS. 7 
having obtained permission on account of his ad- 
head of an establishment in which, a year before, 
he had applied for the situation of gardener 
It is perhaps worthy of incidental remark that 
other animals look upon man as their enemy and 
fly at his approach. To study them, however 
repugnant to his humane feelings, they must be 
killed; the mineral kingdom is concealed in the 
bowels of the earth, and cannot be reached except 
by tedious and painfal exertions. On the other 
hand, plants and vegetables seem to covet the 
admiration and court the acquaintance of man: 
they unfold tee ks their smiling beauties 
to his eye, and thus, as it were, invite him to ex- 
amine and explain cre structure. This branch 
of natural science is not merely the most easy and 
attractive at the outset—it is the key of all the 
rest. Whoever becomes familiar with plants and 
trees, soon desires to know the names of the insects 
that ‘feed on their leaves, and of the birds that 
zoology and mineralogy. This was exactly the 
case with Linnzeus. He wasa botanist from his 
cradle—he lixranl from hie nhilAhan 
and flowers. 
