No. 8 of 100 · The Botanical Series

White Water Lily

Pictures by Walter Müller·Words by Otto Wilhelm Thomé

A white water lily opens over its floating leaf, drawn by Walter Müller for Otto Wilhelm Thomé's 1903 flora of Central Europe, with a simple Happy Birthday inside. Its flowers open each morning and close in the afternoon, and water lilies belong to one of the oldest families of flowering plants. For someone who loves flowers and gardens.

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Inside, it says

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / WHITE WATER LILY / Nymphaea alba / Its flowers open in the morning and close in the afternoon, and its leaves float on long stalks rising from the mud. Water lilies belong to one of the oldest families of flowering plants. / Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1903 / Drawn by Walter Müller for Otto Wilhelm Thomé's great flora of Central Europe: each plant whole, with its flower, fruit and seed taken apart beside it.

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