{"id":11040,"date":"2022-02-14T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=88834"},"modified":"2022-02-14T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:18:09","slug":"qa-what-was-floriography","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/qa-what-was-floriography\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: What was floriography?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jonny Wilkes\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 14 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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In short: floriography is a symbolic, colourful and bizarrely complicated way of having a chat. Although an ancient idea, the conditions were just right in the 19th century for floriography, the \u2018language of flowers\u2019, to bloom.<\/p>\n

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Young lovers needed a way around the rules and etiquette of their repressive society, so flowers were each assigned a meaning or emotion, which were then given in bouquets \u2013 also known as a nosegay or tussiemussie \u2013 to spell out a clandestine message. There was no way of learning every single meaning, and they weren\u2019t standardised anyway, so a heap of dictionaries were published to help.<\/p>\n
Yet great care was still required. Love could be expressed in hundreds of ways, including with red carnations \u2013 but not striped ones. Those were tantamount to a rejection.<\/p>\n
This article was taken from issue 65 of<\/em> BBC History Revealed magazine<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n
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