Day of Rest

Arrive at Fjähl on Ascension Day, spend it here, partly on account

of the holiday, partly to rest your weary limbs and recruit your strength.

Take a walk about the neighborhood; amuse yourself with the beauties

of Flora, which are here but in their earliest spring. Commit them to writing.

And as a true botanist, accept the natural genera, set forth the separate

species, be not satisfied with just any nomenclature but find true names.

Carefully examine the smallest parts of the plants and be illuminated.

Be ever and forever systematic with names and arrangements, else all is hell.

Find that aquatic violet with a white flower. It always grows near water.

Head back before the evening; it will rain very hard.