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Project Gutenberg's The Botanic Garden. Part II., by Erasmus Darwin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Author: Erasmus Darwin Release Date: January 11, 2004 [EBook #10671] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART II. *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders [Illustration: FLORA at Play with CUPID.] THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART II. CONTAINING THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS. A POEM. WITH PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. VOLUME THE SECOND. VIVUNT IN VENEREM FRONDES; NEMUS OMNE PER ALTUM FELIX ARBOR AMAT; NUTANT AD MUTUA PALMAE FAEDERA, POPULEO SUSPIRAT POPULUS ICTU, ET PLATANI PLATANIS, ALNOQUE ASSIBILAT ALNUS. CLAUD. EPITH. THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED BY J. NICHOLS, FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. M, DCC, XC. ADVERTISEMENT. The general design of the following sheets is to inlist Imagination under the banner of Science, and to lead her votaries from the looser analogies, which dress out the imagery of poetry, to the stricter ones, which form the ratiocination of philosophy. While their particular design is to induce the ingenious to cultivate the knowledge of BOTANY; by introducing them to the vestibule of that delightful science, and recommending to their attention the immortal works of the Swedish Naturalist LINNEUS. In the first Poem, or Economy of Vegetation, the physiology of Plants is delivered; and the operation of the Elements, as far as they may be supposed to affect the growth of Vegetables. But the publication of this part is deferred to another year, for the purpose of repeating some experiments on vegetation, mentioned in the notes. In the second poem, or LOVES OF THE PLANTS, which is here presented to the Reader, the Sexual System of LINNEUS is explained, with the remarkable properties of many particular plants. The author has withheld this work, (excepting a few pages) many years from th
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