148 
LINNAEUS 
your meals and the rest of your diet, etc., and to 
carry out my advice, if anything more serious should 
happen.” On Clifford declaring that he would 
willingly take that adyice if only such a physician 
could be obtained, Boerhaave answered, “ There is a 
Swede whom I can recommend, and being a botanist 
as well, he can look after your garden also.” 
The visit to Hartecamp took place on the 13th— 
14th August, and Linnaeus’s boldest anticipations 
were surpassed. “ My eyes,” he says in a dedication 
to Clifford, “ were enchanted by so many natural 
objects, of masterpieces supported by art, alleys, 
plant-beds, statues, ponds and artificial mounts and 
labyrinths. Your menageries delighted me, full of 
tigers, apes, wild hounds, Indian deer and goats, South 
American and African swine; with these mingled 
flocks of birds, American hawks, various kinds of 
parrots, pheasants, peafowl, American capercailzies, 
Indian hens, swans, many sorts of ducks and geese, 
waders and other swimming birds, snipe, American 
crossbills, sparrows of diverse kinds, turtle-doves, with 
innumerable other species which made the garden 
re-echo with their noise. 
“ I was astounded when I stepped into the plant- 
houses, full as they were of so many plants, that a son 
of the north must feel himself bewitched and struck 
with wonder when he thought of the distant lands 
from which they were brought. In the first house 
were kept many kinds of flowers from southern 
Europe, such as Spain, south of France, Italy, Sicily 
and Greece. In the second, treasures were found 
from Asia, such as cloves, Poinciana , mangosteen, 
coco-palms and other palms as well. In the third, 
Africa was represented with its peculiar, not to say 
scientific plants, such as Aloe and Mesembryanthemum 
with their numerous forms, carrion-flowers, euphor¬ 
bias, Crassula and Protea species, etc. Finally in 
the fourth house were cultivated the delightful natives 
from America and other parts of the New World; 
