CHAPTER X 
linn£ as administrator of the botanic garden and 
MUSEUM 
Simultaneously with the exchange that Linne made 
with Rosen, he took over botanic instruction, and also 
assumed the superintendence of the botanic garden. 
Keeping in mind the rich and costly gardens he had 
seen in Holland, England and France, he set himself 
to transform the little, marshy Hortus Upsaliensis to 
one which should vie with any of the foreign ones, and 
that in spite of its situation, unfavourable climate, 
poor soil, narrow limits, and poverty-stricken economic 
relations, and what is more, he succeeded. 
In what condition the Uppsala garden was in 1740 
has already been told (p. 189), though the dawn of a 
better day showed itself when the skilful gardener 
D. Nietzel came, and a few improvements were begun 
by Rosen. Linne took it as a happy omen that the 
enlargement of the garden was sanctioned by the Con¬ 
sistory. He was not long in grappling with the work, 
first setting out the need of a glasshouse or orangery, 
the soul of a garden, for raising seeds and growing 
plants and trees from southern lands, and for harbour¬ 
ing them against the attacks of wintry weather. The 
sum of 5,226 copper daleors [^130 13s.] was assigned 
for the building of a house 32 ells long [63 feet] and 
also for “ the dwelling house of the Prefect, at present 
a sad spectacle, more like an owl’s nest or robbers’ cave 
than a Professor’s abode.” This being approved by 
the Consistory, Court Intendant Harleman designed 
it, and in 1743 the orangery was completed with its 
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