Soon as man was sufficiently civilized to have any appreciation of the aesthetic, he became vividly aware of the beauty of Nature's blossoms. There followed a symbolic and mystic attribution to these of qualities and meanings. Beautiful and poetical thoughts were conveyed by the presentation of a sprig of blossom, and whole messages were communicated by bouquets in which each flower chosen betokened a significant idea. Not only love and happiness were the tenor of these floral missives; coquetry, dalliance, prevarication, indifference and coolness; rebuff, refusal, scorn, contempt and insult-all were expressed by a suitably chosen flower.

Needless to say, the practice of using floral emblems was so convenient that it became firmly established in favor near and far. From the Occident to the Orient, these messages were current. A floral love-token handed to the favored one by a slave or a henchman could tell no tale to irate parent or spouse-at least no such tale as could an intercepted letter.

But the system was open to falsification. The messenger might hand the missive to a person other than the one for whom it was intended; late at night, or in the half-light of dawn, the hopeful knight-errant would appear at the garden gate to carry off his beloved, and she would fail, perhaps, to realize until too late the deception that had been practiced upon her. Or the flower might be substituted by another having a meaning that was far different from the one intended, so that unwittingly the maiden would give her admirer his conge'.

Despite its liability to unhappy breakdowns of this nature, florigraphy has flourished down to our own day, and the modem revival in the sending of valentines has fostered it. Floral cards for birthday messages are also very popular. To the discriminating sender and appreciative recipient, an aptly chosen spray of blossoms may mean much; only the most heedless or uninformed Would choose flowers at random.

Let us make it clear that there is a duality in floral tokens. A flower may indicate merely some sweet or lofty sentiment, or it may carry a verbal message. By combining flowers to form a bouquet, a longer message can be composed. The index of attributes given below makes it quite easy both to compose and interpret florigraphic "documents."   In selecting flowers for such a purpose, Great care should be exercised not to mistake the names; if a florist is commissioned to make up and dispatch or deliver a posy or a bouquet, precise instructions should be written, with a warning not to substitute any other blossoms for the flowers selected. Misguided zeal in trying to secure artistic effects in a floral token may entirely wreck the scheme.

It is worth remembering that flowers can be sent to many parts of the world. An order given to a reputable florist in most of our cities will -ensure a bouquet being made up at the distant city-even at the Antipodes-and delivered to the person whose name and address are specified. Thus oceans and continents present no barriers to the floral message, and the latest resources of science are pressed into the service of florigraphy - that romantic and poetical language of love which has come down to us from the far-away dawn of civilization.

LaNell 

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