Carl Linnaeus a rare book, if he let Linnaeus stay with him, and Burman accepted. On 24 September 1735, Linnaeus moved to Hartekamp to become personal physician to Clifford, and curator of Clifford's herbarium. He was paid 1,000 florins a year, with free board and lodging. Though the agreement was only for a winter of that year, Linnaeus practically stayed there until 1738. It was here that he wrote a book "Hortus Cliffortianus", in the preface of which he described his experience as "the happiest time of my life." (A portion of Hartekamp was declared as public garden in April 1956 by
Melaleuca leucadendra leucadendra" was first formally described in 1762 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum as "Myrtus leucadendra". Linnaeus used a description of the species written by Georg Eberhard Rumphius in 1741, before the modern system of classification was devised by Linnaeus. Rumphius had described a plant growing in what is now Indonesia. Later, Linnaeus realised that this species had little in common with other species in the genus "Myrtus" and described the genus "Melaleuca" to accommodate this species. Thus, "Melaleuca leucadendra" became the first melaleuca to be formally described. The description was published in 1767 in "Mantissa plantarum". It follows that