Hartekamp, or Hartecamp, is the name of a villa in

Heemstede Heemstede () is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the fourth richest municipality of the Netherlands. History Heemstede formed around the Castle ''Heemstede'' that was built overlooking the ...

, North Holland, the

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, on the

Bennebroek Bennebroek () is a village and former municipality in the northwest Netherlands, now part of Bloemendaal, North Holland. Before its merger, it was the smallest municipality in the Netherlands, covering an area of only 1.75 km². History Be ...

border. It was once the

Buitenplaats A buitenplaats (literally "outside place") was a summer residence for rich townspeople in the Netherlands. During the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, many traders and city administrators in Dutch towns became very wealthy. Many of them boug ...

of George Clifford, who employed

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...

in 1737 to write his '' Hortus Cliffortianus'', a detailed description of the gardens of Hartecamp.

History

The house was built by Johan Hinloopen in 1693Rijksmonument report who designed the basic garden and built the

orangerie An orangery or orangerie was a room or a dedicated building on the grounds of fashionable residences of Northern Europe from the 17th to the 19th centuries where orange and other fruit trees were protected during the winter, as a very lar ...

. It passed into Clifford's hands in 1709. The wings on either side of the main building were added after it left the Clifford family. The Clifford banking dynasty went bankrupt in 1772 and the estate went out of the family in 1788. The original editions of the ''Hortus Cliffortianus'' and other works of Linnaeus that were written there ''Musa Cliffortiana'', ''Florens Hartekampi'', and ''Prope Harlemum'' were sold at auction to generate funds for the Clifford estate. At the time of Linnaeus' inventory, the garden had 1251 living plant species in the greenhouses, gardens and woods. A recent inventory in 2006 revealed 250 living species today that are all wild remains of the ancient garden.Mourik, J. & Koper, A. (2007). "Linnaeus in de tuin van Clifford. Een landschapshistorische wandeling over de Hartekamp en de Overplaats in Heemstede". Publication of the Heemstede Historical Society.

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History

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