Small drawing of a split brown linden seed above the words THANK YOU in green capitals — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Small-leaved Lime

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A branch of small-leaved lime, with its heart-shaped leaves and pale blossoms, drawn by Walther Otto Müller for Köhler's 1887 guide to healing plants, opens to a simple thank you. In many European villages a linden tree stood in the square, where people gathered and danced, and in July the bees make the trees hum. For someone whose kindness you want to acknowledge.

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Inside, it says

THANK YOU

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / SMALL-LEAVED LIME / Tilia cordata / Linden blossom makes a calming tea, and bees love it so much that the trees hum in July. In many European villages a linden stood in the square, where people met and danced. / 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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