Antique botanical plate of a nutmeg branch with green leaves and white flowers, surrounded by the split yellow fruit, red mace and brown nutmeg seeds.

A small split nutmeg fruit above the words Merry Christmas in spaced olive-green capitals. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Nutmeg Merry Christmas

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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Walther Otto Müller's nutmeg plate from Köhler's 1887 guide to medicinal plants sets out the leafy branch, white blossoms and golden fruit split open to show its red-laced seed, with Merry Christmas inside. One fruit gives two spices, nutmeg and mace, and wars were once fought over the tiny Banda Islands where it grew. For someone who loves the spice of the season.

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Inside, it says

MERRY CHRISTMAS

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / NUTMEG / Myristica fragrans / One fruit gives two spices: nutmeg is the seed, and mace is the red lace around it. Wars were once fought over the tiny Banda Islands, the only place it grew. / 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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