Flowers can Speak

I'm not sure where I was the other day, or if I was listening to the radio but... they mentioned the language of flowers. Apparently, during the Victorian era, there was a whole language and symbology associated with flowers. This all depended on the type of flower, how it was held, whether it was given with your right hand or your left hand, how it was grouped with other flowers, etc. Apparrently, the Victorians had lots of fun composing secret messages using flowers! So, I did a bit of researc and sure enough, the Victorians had actual dictionaries that would tell you what each flower meant... That would be kind of fun... to compose and to interpret... as long as both people had the same flower dictionary!!

We don't really seem to have that today... Well, we do have remnants of it. Red roses are for love. Yellow roses are for friendship. White flowers symbolize purity. Chrysanthemums are for funerals, etc. But on the whole, we've lost the language of flowers... just another one of those dying dialects! It's kind of sad actually... We don't seem to speak in symbols that much anymore... They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and so is a symbol. A bouquet of flowers could say a few thousand words! We've become much more attached to the direct meaning of words, rather than their poetry.
http://www.victorianbazaar.com/meanings.html