On a nearby hill, near the Bellman statue, is an oak tree named the Bellman oak, under which Carl Michael Bellman is said to have written episode 25 of Fredmans epistlar.Brusewitz, Gunnar: Stockholm, staden på landet, Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1969. LIBRIS 1789588. According to Erik Rydqvist (in Djurgården förr och nu) king Gustav III of Sweden came there incognito to see what the folk life was like. The place was also visited yearly by Par Bricole on Bellman day on 26 June. A statue was erected to the memory of Bellman in 1872, modelled by Alfred Nyström and cast in zinc. The oak was almost felled to make room for the statue but a different location was chosen instead. In 1969 Gunnar Brusewitz wrote about the oak in his book Stockholm, staden på landet. The oak remains standing to this day.
