Here's the text -
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23681
WAY TOO CUTE!
Safely PD for all. I would LOVE to BC this if we have some people interested in this one.
An excerpt from the Artists' Note:
To the lovers of Beauty no branch of science offers such varied delights as that of Hearticulture; at the same time no pursuit is so full of disappointments for the inexperienced and pitfalls for the unwary. It is the study of a lifetime; no one can say he is a master of Hearticulture. Many of the most successful gardeners give it up as they become older: some from disappointment over a trifling failure, others from sheer weariness; still more take up a branch of nursery-gardening called Matrimony, which demands such close attention and care that it has come to be regarded as a profession in itself.