Short Stuff: Victorian Flower Language

Short Stuff: Victorian Flower Language

What do you do when you want to tell someone you’re smitten with them but you live in a society so repressive decorum prevents you from even speaking such things? Why, you can say it with flowers! And that’s just what people in the Victorian Era did.

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