Treasures New & Old; What Are They Saying

The Victorians spoke of, if they were not actually speaking in, the language of the flowers.

It seems that using the language of the flowers allowed courting couples to say things to each other that propriety forbade their saying in plain English.

Much was said in those days without actually saying it. Indirection, for which read quite often, flirting, must often have been annoying, yet some people enjoyed it. Some would have said that all the mystery was taken out of life when plain speech (and beyond) became the way to speak in all situations.

Many flowers have very interesting names, apart...