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LINNAEUS 
which I built in the air,” as he called it in varying 
phrases, had truly, according to our present-day ideas, 
almost laughably small dimensions; but was never¬ 
theless his delight and pride. Among the visitors 
was Lord Baltimore, who came in a great carriage he 
had brought from England and for which, in order 
to get to Hammarby in it, all the gate-posts in the 
byways had to be removed. Another tale is that 
Linne, asking why he had not stopped in Stockholm 
to see the King, he was answered, that he did not care 
to see him, as he had never even seen his own King 
[George III.] The size of the museum is given as 
a square, 478 m. [15 ft. 8 in.] and 275 m. high [9 ft. 
1 in.] having three windows, but no fireplace for fear 
of fire. This produced its own dangers, as will be 
shown hereafter. Here he worked in summer and 
held his private lectures, unless the beauty of the 
weather induced him to move the lecture-chair out¬ 
side. His pupils sat on benches (yet preserved), 
unless they preferred to throw themselves down upon 
the grass, or on the rocks around. 
During Linne’s possession, the estate naturally 
underwent a complete change. There was an old 
garden, but this, through neglect, became overgrown 
and tangled, so in this wild forest grove he planted 
rare plants without special order. This grove, or as 
the grandchildren called it, mother’s father’s bower, 
was a square place surrounded by trees, not far 
from Hammarby, towards the near-lying Hubby 
driving road to the left, as one comes from Ham¬ 
marby. Here in summer time was placed the dinner 
table, when the weather permitted; here Linne sat and 
smoked his pipe, and listened, when the wind stirred, 
to the music of the glass bells hung upon the branches 
of the trees. How dear this place was to him appears 
from the following direction to his wife on a paper 
left behind him : “ Keep my grove which I planted 
during your time, and if a tree dies, plant another in 
its place.” 
