Lust: The Secret Language of Flowers in Jewelry

All of the flowers had strange names, and each one meant something different Abakazoo's job was to pick the flowers and arrange bouquets for the townspeople who stopped by to purchase them On one such excursion, in Paris on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, my father saw a 19th-century doll who held a bouquet in one hand and a small dictionary regarding the language of flowers in the other.

He'd been enchanted by her and the idea that flowers had a language of their own One of the most romantic is the secret language of flowers Going back to ancient Egypt and China, to the bible's Song of Songs and Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, we find emblematic meanings to flowers.

Looking up flowers in Elizabeth Wirt's Flora's Dictionary or Dorothea Dix's The Garland of Flora, or the more current Flowerpeadia by Cleralyn Darcy you can discover how to use jewelry to deliver very exact messages. . Source