No. 12 of 100 · The Botanical Series

Bilberry

Pictures by Walter Müller·Words by Otto Wilhelm Thomé

Walter Müller's botanical plate of the bilberry, Europe's wild blueberry, shows the whole plant with its dark berries, flowers and seeds, opening to a simple Happy Birthday. It was drawn in 1903 for Otto Wilhelm Thomé's great flora of Central Europe, where each plant is shown whole with its parts taken apart beside it. For someone who loves gardens and summer berries.

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Inside, it says

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / BILBERRY / Vaccinium myrtillus / The bilberry, Europe's wild blueberry, dark right through. Picked by hand on summer hills for pies and jam, it turns every picker's fingers and tongue blue. / Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1903 / Drawn by Walter Müller for Otto Wilhelm Thomé's great flora of Central Europe: each plant whole, with its flower, fruit and seed taken apart beside it. / BOTANICAL SERIES · BIRTHDAY / No. 12/24

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• Birthday
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