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Language of Flowers

Kate Greenaway

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In the nineteenth century, flowers had meanings, and lovers could send messages with a bouquet: a red rose for love, ivy for fidelity, a yellow rose for…

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Author
Kate Greenaway
Category
Natural Sciences
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

In the nineteenth century, flowers had meanings, and lovers could send messages with a bouquet: a red rose for love, ivy for fidelity, a yellow rose for jealousy, forget-me-nots for true love, rosemary for remembrance. This little book lists hundreds of flowers and plants alphabetically with the sentiment each one expresses, and it is decorated throughout with Kate Greenaway's charming drawings of children and flowers in her famous delicate style.

Context and significance

Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), one of the most popular illustrators of Victorian children's books, published it in 1884. It is a pretty record of a vanished language of courtship. A very different old book about plants is Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

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