The Floral Greeting Card Collection

This collection of eight greeting cards features four different designs of vintage floral imagery, presenting the names, family trees, and emotions associated with our earth's most beautiful blossoms. Printed in England on a light cream, 300 gsm carbon-neutral Italian paper, made from 100% recycled post-consumer waste.  These cards are 170 mm x 120 mm (approximately 5" x 7") and blank inside, individually wrapped in a compostable wrapper made from plants, with a 100% recycled, 110gsm kraft envelope. Includes: Wild Flowers: Adapted from Tabulae Phytographicae, Johannes Gessner (1795). Swiss scientist Gessner was a follower of Carl Linnaeus and enlisted the help of painter and engraver Christian Gottlieb Geissler to produce this twenty-four volume work illustrating Linnaeus’s plant family codification system. Flower Families: Greeting card illustrating families of flowers and how they are related. Adapted from Flowers of Coast and Sierra (1928) by American botanist and illustrator Edith S Clements. Language of Flowers: Greeting card illustrating flowers and their associated emotions. Adapted from an Edwardian postcard illustrating 18 different flowers and their symbolic meaning. The idea that a flower could represent a particular sentiment was popular in Victorian times. Garden Museum collection. Classes of Linnaeus: Double-sided greeting card illustrating Carl Linnaeus’s classes of plants. Adapted from a hand-coloured, early twentieth century illustration. Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) classified plants according to his ‘sexual system’ which formalized the naming of organisms and revolutionized scientific taxonomy.