I have to say that these do look rather tasty strawberries, but eating them, even just one, gives me a stomach ache.
However today we have the tale of a King, Richard III, who on June the thirteenth, 1483, ordered a bowl of strawberries at a council meeting in the Tower of London, only to develop large red bumps and a rash on his forearms, which he described as being intolerably itchy. This was later reported by Sir Thomas More in his "History of King Richard III", begun in 1513, which he sadly never finished.
The important thing about this is that it is one of the earliest cases to be documented as proof that food affected the body. However there is a problem, because King Richard III did not sit at the table and suddenly show his arms, he left the table, and perhaps the building, for about an hour, and came back with the markings in place. And he also used them to claim that a certain Lord Hastings had made them appear, which led to that man being beheaded that very afternoon, even though, or maybe because, he was one of the most powerful men in the whole country, and would definitely have prevented Richard III becoming King.
The first Verkade album was issued in 1903, and it was simply billed as a picture album. There were actually three of them, the other two being issued in 1903 and 1905, and all three were on the subject of fairy tales.
They would go on to issue thirty albums, of which ours is number 26. Now I thought that this set was all plants, but on translation it turns out to be the farm, and there are 144 cards like this, plus a large plate which fits opposite the title page. I am unsure about this plate as I can`t think how it was distributed, it seems more likely that it came with the album, or maybe that it was already stuck there.