Victorians Used Flowers to Send Secret Messages
Victorians Used Flowers to Send Secret Messages Victorians elevated floriography to an art form and created bouquets to say things that could not be said aloud in polite society. Author: Courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Victorians elevated floriography to an art form and created bouquets to say things that could not be said aloud in polite society. When people get a bouquet of flowers today, the first thing they generally reach for is a vase to put them in. In Victorian times, people reached for their floral dictionary to decipher what secret message the flowers were saying. From the simpl...
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