44 ARKIV FOR BOTANIK. BAND 4. N:O 5. 
Upsala; den. som besöker dessa ställen, finner nu dar sa godt 
som inga »stumma och dock talande minnesvardar hviska 
om LiNNÉs ingripande i naturens hushållning genom ackli- 
matiseringsförsök.» ÄHRLINGS ofta uttalade beklagande gälde 
alltså särskildt, att den gamla botaniska trädgården ej be- 
hållits till plan och anläggningar i sådant skick, att den, 
liksom »Botanikens Tusculum» Hammarby, förflyttade den 
besökandes tankar tillbaka till den store mästarens dagar. 
Det skick, hvari den redan för hundra år sedan försattes, 
ansåg han vittna om en vandalism, som ej kunde ursäktas 
genom de »oväntade, snart sagdt förfärliga utgifter '», som 
da drabbade universitetet, till ej obetydlig del genom den 
nya botaniska trädgårdens iordningställande. Denna åsikt 
har f. 6. redan långt förut med skärpa blifvit uttalad *. 
1 Cons. acad. prot. d. °!/; 1802. — Professor FLYGARE var dock af af- 
vikande mening. »Någon anstalt», förklarade han, »i framtiden at bibe- 
holla den [ = trädgården] för Botaniken under Demonstrat:s speciela wård 
och Botanices Professorens öfwerinseende torde för wettenskapen icke wara 
skadelig, då jordmånerne i begge trägårdarna äro olika, och någon Pu- 
blike inrättning til trädplanteringar både för Studerande och hela Länet 
torde wara, om icke nödwändig, dock mycket nyttig.» 
? Sa t. ex. skrifver THomas THOMSON (Travels in Sweden during the 
autumn of 1812 s. 179) med anledning af sitt besök i LInnÉs botaniska 
trädgård: »There is a certain interest attached to the places that have 
been frequented by illustrious men, or which have been rendered remar- 
kable by any great event. We feel a kind of pleasure in surveying these 
places; it is difficult to tell why, but the feeling, however it may origi- 
nate, is almost universal, and it carried us with considerable eagerness 
to a spot where nothing was be to seen but devastation and ruin... 
The apartment where Linnzus used to lecture is still standing, and 
the range of hot-houses and green-houses on both sides of it have not 
been altered. But the glass panes of all of them have been destroy ed by time, 
the green-house plants have been removed, and the floor is cov ered with 
a rich crop of docks, nettles, and other common weeds... Two of the 
compartmens of the garden are precisely in the state that Linneus left 
them. His small ponds, his artifical rocks, and even some of his plants 
may still be seen. But the greatest part of them is covered with grass 
and with weeds, and presente one of the mostdesolate and disagreeable 
sights imaginable. The third compartment has been converted by Adam 
Afzelius into a potatoe garden. The reason of all this desolation is, that 
.. the botanical garden of Linn&zus belonged to the University, and their 
funds not being sufficient to enable them to keep it in order, the con- 
sequence has been, that is has been allowed to fall into the desolate state 
in which it now is. It would have been for the interest of hotany to 
have kept up the old garden, notwithstanding the new, as it was better 
situated, and of course better adapted for the rearing of delicate plants. 
Besides, the preservation of his garden and his plants was an honour to 
which the genius and splendid exertions of Linneus entitled him. But 
as neither gratitude nor shame ever exists in a body of men, we need 
not expect from them either generosity or gratitude.» 
