The botanic garden
Subtitle: Part II : containing the loves of the plants. A poem with philosophical notes
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Printed by J. Nichols for J. Johnson
Published: 1790
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Notes: Illustrations engraved by Samuel Alken, T. Holloway & F.P. Nodder.

On the Linnean system of classification.

The first part was first published "1791 [i.e. 1792]"; cf. the Monthly review, n.s. 11 (1793), 182.

In the "Advertisement" (prelim. leaf 3), Darwin remarks, "The author has withheld this work, (excepting a few pages) many years from the press ..."; apparently, the "few pages" are lines 1-58 of canto i of pt. i, published over the signature of Anna Seward in the Gentleman's magazine 53 (1783), p. 428. Cf. J.V. Logan, The poetry and esthetics of Erasmus Darwin (1936), p. 115, who accepts Seward's claim to authorship.

Imperfect: p. 101-108 wanting.