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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carmiol" data-source="post: 3927325" data-attributes="member: 151271">Well, after asking around, I was mistaken.  Apparently it is well documented that this poem was indeed written by the 9 year old Carl Christian Conrad Julius Carnigohl Prösell to his mother Auguste Prösell.This was documented by Francisco Carmiol Calvo in 27 April 1973, in an article called Biography of Julio Carmiol Pröessel (around the date of the Revista de Agricultura article on Julian Carmiol).The letter says the following:Which roughly translated (and correct me if Im wrong here) says:This is a poem so I assume it sounds better in German.Per the biography written by Carmiol Calvo, Julio collected the small flowers embedded in the paper from the forests in Prussia.  The drying technique, which my grandfather did learn and showed to my father, involved putting the flowers and leaves against a paper, and pressing it for a long time inside a book.  The theory is that the book pages would "suck" all of the water out of the leaves and preserve them for a very long time, which it is clear that it did.  I'm sure there is more to it involved...On a 9 year old kid being able to do this...  Well I guess his father, Don Carmiol, being a master botanist helped him out with the drying technique.  Apparently he was very clever, when he arrived at age 16 to Costa Rica he was already a graduated doctor and pharmacist (Im guessing education was not as age restricted back then as it is today).</blockquote>

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