A small lavender crocus flower above the words 'Birthday Wishes' in spaced olive-green capitals. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Saffron Crocus

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A pale lavender saffron crocus, drawn by Walther Otto Müller for Köhler's 1887 guide to healing plants, opens above a simple wish for a happy birthday. The red threads at the heart of each flower are saffron, picked by hand, and it takes about 150,000 blooms to make a single kilogram. For someone who loves gardens and good cooking.

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Inside, it says

BIRTHDAY WISHES

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / SAFFRON CROCUS / Crocus sativus / Saffron is the three red threads at the heart of each flower, picked by hand. About 150,000 flowers make one kilogram, which is why it is the costliest spice in the world. / 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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