The Language of flowers : an alphabet of floral emblems
The Language of Flowers is a Victorian floral emblem alphabet published in London and New York by T. Nelson and Sons in 1857, meant for readers who wanted to send messages through flowers. Its pictures are small framed watercolour-style plates, each an oval of a single flower set in an ornate cream border with decorative lettering, offering a designer a compact model for botanical vignettes, label framing and gilt-edged Victorian ornament.
