Botanical illustration of a red and yellow tulip with long green leaves and a dark bulb, on a cream background.

The words HAPPY BIRTHDAY in spaced red capital letters on cream. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Sweet Tulip

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté's sweet tulip, red flame petals above a dark bulb, opens to a simple Happy Birthday inside. Tulips came to Europe from the gardens of Ottoman Turkey, and in the 1630s a single rare Dutch bulb could cost more than a house. For someone who loves flowers, on their birthday.

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Inside, it says

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / SWEET TULIP / Tulipa suaveolens / Tulips came to Europe from the gardens of Ottoman Turkey. In the 1630s the Dutch went so wild for them that a single rare bulb could cost more than a house. / Les Liliacées, 1802–1816 / From Les Liliacées, Pierre-Joseph Redouté's 486 portraits of lilies and their kin, many grown in the Empress Joséphine's garden at Malmaison.

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