Antique botanical illustration of a forget-me-not plant with small blue flowers, pink buds, long green leaves and roots on a cream background.

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

Forget-me-not (Lindman)

Pictures by Jacob SturmWords by Carl Lindman

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A delicate forget-me-not from Carl Lindman's Nordic flora of 1901 opens onto two simple words: Miss you. A German legend says a knight fell into a river picking these flowers for his love and threw them to her, crying "forget me not." For someone far away who is never far from your thoughts.

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Inside, it says

MISS YOU

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / FORGET-ME-NOT / Myosotis / A German legend tells of a knight who fell into a river while picking these flowers for his love, and threw them to her crying “forget me not!” / Billeder af Nordens Flora, 1901 / From the Danish edition of Carl Lindman’s Nordic flora, its gentle plates based on Jacob Sturm’s little engravings of a century before. / NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

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