The words 'With Sympathy' in spaced green capital letters on cream. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Lady Fern

Pictures by Walter Hood FitchWords by Sir William Hooker

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A lady fern unfurls across the cover in Walter Hood Fitch's hand-coloured plate from The British Ferns of 1861, with a quiet 'With Sympathy' inside. Fitch was the great Kew artist who made more than ten thousand botanical drawings, and ferns like this one are older than the dinosaurs. For someone who is grieving.

Add four of your own photos and your own words; we print the card in the US and post it for you.

Inside, it says

WITH SYMPATHY

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / LADY FERN / Athyrium filix-femina / Ferns are older than the dinosaurs. They have no flowers or seeds and grow from spores as fine as dust, and each new frond unrolls slowly from a tight green spiral. / The British Ferns, 1861 / From Sir William Hooker's British Ferns, drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, the great Kew artist who made more than ten thousand botanical drawings.

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