LINNtEUS professor at UPSAL. 155 



In the year 1745 he gave a description of the new garden, with all 

 its dispostions and establishments, mentioning in the most grateful 

 terms all those who had contributed to its restoration and embellish- 

 ment The garden was not laid out on a very extensive scale, but 

 arranged in a tasty manner. We shall here communicate a concise de- 

 scription of it, given by a learned traveller, who visited Upsal in the 

 year 1771. 



The academical garden of UpalhdiS been arranged by Linn /E us. 

 An iron gate of excellent workmanship leads to it from the high road. 

 At the top of the gate the Swedish arms, and those of Count Gyllen- 

 BORG, who has so zealously promoted its restoration, are displayed. 

 From within a spacious yard presents itself to view ; on the right 

 stands the dwelling of Linnaeus, who is the diretlor of the garden, 

 • on the left appear some other buildings. A straight avenue leads by 

 another gate to the garden, which is parted from the yard by an ele- 

 gant wooden inclosure. The garden itself is laid out in a superb style. 

 Its niost considerable part consists of two large trafts of ground. One 

 of them contains the perennial plants ; the other those from which the 

 seeds are annually gathered. Each of these trafts is divided into forty- 

 four beds, surrounded with a low hedge and little doors. The plant- 

 house is situate eastward. It is divided into the plant-hall (frigida- 

 rr.mj, which lies in the centre; into the thriving-house (caldarium)^ 

 and the hot-house (tepidarium)^ which form the northern wing, and the 

 gardner's cot, which forms the southern wing. To the west lies the 

 thriving-bank (vaporarium), and to the south the glass-bank; the sun- 



* Descriptio Horti Upsaliensis, Upsal, 1745 Vide Anioenitates Academica;, vol, i. In 

 ihis work tfie garden is represented on a plate. 



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