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View of villa Hartekamp in Heemstede from the Leiden-Haarlem canal towpath. This villa was once the home of George Clifford, the patron of the botanist Carl Linnaeus. This is the place where Linnaeus stayed for a year in 1737 to write his 'Hortus Cliffortianus'. He had been introduced to Clifford, a wealthy Amsterdam banker, by Herman Boerhaave of Leiden. Linnaeus had come to visit Boerhaave (at that time an old man famous for his work on botany) as Voltaire had done before him. Clifford collected rare plants as a hobby and Linnaeus came to see his Indonesian bananna tree in his Orangerie. Boerhaave had a summer home on the Haarlem-Leiden canal as did Clifford, and they would have traveled to each others' gardens by trekschuit, a popular Dutch narrow boat for passenger traffic. Today little remains of 'Hortus Cliffortianus' but a few American oaks and pines among the dense woods. Date: jan 2007

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