Botanical plate of a cotton plant with a large yellow flower, green leaves, buds, seed pods and cross-sections on a cream background
The words 'Welcome little one' in spaced green capital letters on cream
Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 5 of 5 · The Botanical Series

Cotton

Pictures by Walter Müller

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A yellow cotton blossom opens among green leaves, buds and seed pods in this plate from Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen of 1887, drawn by Walther Otto Müller, with 'Welcome little one' inside. This species of cotton gives Sea Island and Egyptian cotton, the longest and softest fibres of all. For a family welcoming a new baby.

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Inside, it says

WELCOME LITTLE ONE

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / COTTON / Gossypium barbadense / Cotton is a seed hair: soft white fibres that help the seeds travel. This species gives Sea Island and Egyptian cotton, the longest and softest fibres of all. / 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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