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The origin of province flowers came from the American idea of state flowers, and was brought to Sweden by August Wickström and Paul Petter Waldenström in 1908. Waldenström published the proposal to introduce province flowers in the May 288, 1908 edition of the newspaper Stockholms Dagblad , and requested suggestions of species from the ...
The first issue of Hemmets Journal was published in 1921. [3] It was a Swedish version of the popular Danish magazine Hjemmet that was first published in 1904.Hjemmet was printed by the Danish publishing company Gutenberghus (which later became Egmont) and the Swedish version was published by its own subsidiary of Gutenberghus, Hemmets Journals Förlag.
It is published 8 times a year. The magazine contains articles in both English and Swedish on subjects related to contemporary events in Sweden, as well as coverage of Swedish traditions and culture. The Swedish Press also features interesting Swedish personalities and companies. The magazine comes in a printed and a digital edition.
The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, sw. Carl von Linné (1707–1778), often called the father of taxonomy or "The flower-king", was born in Älmhult in Småland. He gave the Twinflower its Latin name based on his own (Latin: Linnaea borealis), because of his particular fondness of it. The flower has become Småland's provincial flower.
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