I first encountered the idea of floriography, better known as "Victorian flower language," in A Victorian Grimoire by Patricia J. Telesco . The editing, formatting, and general tone betray the book's early 90s origins, and it doesn't cover any particular area in any depth. Of course, the Victorians had an obsession with mythology and the occult, so perhaps it is not reasonable to expect a single book to contain all there is to know about every piece of Victorian culture th
