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western one, mainly built before Linne’s time, had a 
stairway at each end, and was then in a most lament¬ 
able state; in place of the eastern wing, low and 
turf-thatched, which was falling, had been erected a 
new two-storied house, which had become the prin¬ 
cipal building on the estate. All this was altered in 
consonance with the old drawings and trustworthy 
traditions. With regard to planting, an inexorable 
rule was made that not a single plant should be 
allowed which was not cultivated at Hammarby or in 
the Uppsala garden in Linne’s time. It was seen 
that many of the tall grown elms, ash trees, and 
maples round the buildings, must be thinned, as they 
had in later times grown up where formerly fruit trees 
had flourished. 
This description gives a very good representation 
of how the place looked in Linne’s time. In front of 
the main building were two horse chestnuts (the last 
one being blown down in 1907) under which he used 
to smoke his evening pipe, and there was also a 
Siberian crab, crooked with age. On the gable of the 
western wing was the “ porridge ” bell, which used 
in his time to summon the labourers to their meals, 
and round about is a luxuriant carpet of Aquilegia , 
Myrrhis , Mercunalis perennis , Tulipa silvestris , 
Lilium Martagon, Epimedium alpinum , Crepis 
sibirica , Asarum europceum , Corydalis nobilis , Cam¬ 
panula latifolia , Galanthus nivalis , Leucoium vernum , 
and other plants, persisting from his time. On enter¬ 
ing the main building there are to be seen articles of 
furniture, portraits, and other objects, which once 
belonged to him. In the dining-room there is still 
to be seen an unwieldy dinner table, a simple yellow- 
painted cupboard, and the same clock that Linne 
used still records the passage of time. In a room 
on the first floor, is a bed with bedclothes, on which 
he died. There is kept his big peculiar inkpot, his 
everyday and Sunday sticks, his leather-covered 
favourite chair, his bed with hangings of Chinese 
