page_title: University of Uppsala Botanical Garden
section_title: Gift of land from King Gustav III
hierarchical_section_title: University of Uppsala Botanical Garden / Gift of land from King Gustav III
caption_attribution_description: English: The Uppsala Orangerie in the Botanical garden of Uppsala University, Sweden. Original drawing by C. S. Hallbeck, as anengraving by Wilhelm Fredrik Meyer (1874).
context_page_description: The University of Uppsala Botanical Garden, near Uppsala Castle, is the principal botanical garden belonging to Uppsala University. It was created on land donated to the university in 1787 by Sweden's King Gustav III, who also laid the cornerstone of Linneanum, its orangery.
  Uppsala University also maintains two satellite botanical gardens. The older of these is its original botanical garden, created in 1655 by Olaus Rudbeck, now called the Linnaean Garden. The other satellite is Linnaeus Hammarby, the former summer home of Carl Linnaeus and his family.
context_section_description: After the death of Linnaeus in 1778, his disciple and successor Carl Peter Thunberg became dissatisfied with the Linnaean Garden. Its location, near the river Fyris, kept the soil  too wet for many species of plants. Thunberg approached King Gustav III, whose castle in Uppsala stood upon much higher ground, to request the use of the castle's large formal garden for Uppsala University's botanical plantings.
  Uppsala castle's large formal garden had been laid out in baroque style in 1744, based on a plan by Carl Hårleman.  The king agreed to give not only this land but also an additional area south of Norbyvägen, and to pay for the university's costs in transforming it to its new mission.
  King Gustav III signed the official grant on August 17, 1787. That day also, in a ceremony marked by the firing of 128 cannons, the king himself laid a foundation stone for the conservatory (Swedish Orangeriet), which had inside it a full set of Swedish coins as well as medals showing the King, Crown Prince, and Linnaeus.
  After the death of Gustav III in 1792, work on the garden and its conservatory became difficult due to lack of money for the garden. The conservatory was finally officially opened on May 25, 1807, honoring the centennial of the birth of Linnaeus.
caption: Orangeriet. Drawing by C. S. Hallbeck from Svenska Familj-Journalen, 1874.
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