A small cream and yellow laurel flower above the words Happy Graduation in green capitals — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Bay Laurel

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A branch of bay laurel in flower, drawn by Walther Otto Müller for Köhler's 1887 guide to useful plants, opens to a simple Happy Graduation. In ancient Greece poets and victors were crowned with laurel, which is why a prize winner is still called a laureate. For the graduate who has earned their crown.

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Inside, it says

HAPPY GRADUATION

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / BAY LAUREL / Laurus nobilis / Poets and victors in ancient Greece were crowned with laurel, which is why a prize winner is still called a laureate. Its leaves are the bay leaves of every kitchen. / Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887 / From Franz Eugen Köhler's guide to the healing and useful plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller and his colleagues with every part set out like a specimen.

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