The Language & Sentiment of Flowers - Victorian Floral Dictionary

An illustrated reproduction of a Victorian Floral Dictionary, this colorful book evokes an age gone by, before the days of email and overnight shipping, when communication between people was a very special occasion, made more difficult by time and space.

To Victorian letter-writers of the West, a new and exotic language came from the East: communicating through flowers. Using flowers, one could send a message of passion, friendship, and mystery and in the 19th century the language of flowers became so refined that this floral dictionary would become necessary.