Botanical illustration of a pink China rose stem with an open bloom, buds, green leaves, thorns and a red rose hip on cream

The words MANY HAPPY RETURNS in spaced green capital letters on a cream background — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

China Rose (Redouté)

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté's pink China rose, in full bloom with buds and a rose hip, opens to a simple wish: Many happy returns. Redouté, called the Raphael of flowers, painted for Marie Antoinette and the Empress Joséphine, and this rose's ancestors gave us nearly every repeat-flowering rose grown today. For someone with a birthday to celebrate.

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Inside, it says

MANY HAPPY RETURNS

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / CHINA ROSE / Rosa chinensis / Roses from China flower again and again all summer. When they reached Europe around 1800 they were crossed with the old roses, and gave us nearly all the repeat-flowering roses we grow today. / Les Roses, 1817–1824 / By Pierre-Joseph Redouté, the Raphael of flowers, who painted for Marie Antoinette and the Empress Joséphine. Printed in colour and finished by hand.

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