*58 LINNAEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 
Linn a. us to have a roan, who, in his art, was one of the first in 
Europe , and to whom he stood indebted for many useful instruaions 
respcding the cultivation and nursing of plants. His name was Der- 
mciv Neiizel, a German, born at Hamburgh in 1703. He had ar- 
ranged the principal gardens in Lower Saxony, and was afterwards em- 
ployed by Cuffort at Hartecamp. 
Linn.eus had thus obtained the finest repository that could be 
wished for, but he only wanted the plants. His zeal, and the connexions 
which he had with the greatest botanists in Europe , sooq remedied this 
defeet, and rendered the garden one of the richest in Europe. In 
1742 he introduced more than two hundred indigenous plants in it, and 
sent a student to Norway to collcfit there the most valuable botanical 
treasures. « Formerly,” says Linn aus in a letter to Haller, “ I had 
plants but no money and now, ol what use is my money without 
« plants*?” This proves with what enthusiastic fondness Linn a- us 
loved plants. 
Soon, however, did his foreign friends gratify his wishes in a most 
eager and satisfactory manner. He received plants and seeds from 
“ hardly possessed any thing else, till I presented it with my collection of dried plants 
“ inse£ts, birds, See. See.” * 
* Prior hortus situs erat loco maxime depresso et *des demiss* loco paludoso. Ego igitur a Rego 
Clcraentissimo petii, ut hortus arcis regia; academi* donaretur proque liorto hotanico instrucretur, quod 
et dudura factum rst. Acdcs pro plantis servaudis { Orangcrie , the hut-house, j. Auditorium, in quo 
erigetur ejjigies Lirmai, museum naturalium, atdrs profrssionis, &c. jam magna ex parte exstrufta sunt, 
et post paupos annos omuino erunt paratac. Prior hortus adhuc quidem existit. atdibus (orangerie) 
fere collapsis ; et novus hortus ita a me mstrucius cst, ut plantat* fuerint plant* perennes in arcis tribus, 
et Sum* in unica, secundum systems Linn*anum ; prsterea plant* Suecic*. officinales pharmaceutic*, 
&c. in distind'lis areis plantat* sunt, in, usum mcdicorum et mconomorum, Pr*ter naturalia, spiritu 
vird servata, museum academicum quidquam vis habuit, ante quam ego colleftionem meam herbarura 
aiccaururn, inseftorum, avium, &c. &c. Acadcmi* Upsaliensi donaveram. 
Ante habui plantas, non pecunias ; nunc quid juvant pecuniae, ubi non plants ! Epist. 
ad Haller, vol. is. page 147, 
