("The Flowers Language")

Does exist better thing than to receive unexpected flowers ?

A bouquet of lilies to cheer the coffee tray, lily-of-the-valley to celebrate the spring, or simply one branch of madressilvas that were harvested in the hedge.

The pleasure will be even bigger if the flowers will have one special meaning. The attribution of meanings to the Flowers started in the antiquity.

The Romans homaged the heroes with crowns of laurels and the mythology Greek tells the creation of many flowers. In Hamlet, Ofélia enumerates the qualities of the herbs and the flowers that leads in her arms, therefore William Shakespeare understood sufficiently of the subject.

The poets always glorify the flowers virtues and at the Elisabeth Era they had started to write about their meanings, but the Victorian People had transformed into art the flower offerings. They were inhaled in a book called Le Langage Des Fleurs, it was written by the Frenchwoman Madame de la Tour, they followed the new floral code with the same dedicated enthusiasm of the construction of the cities and the decoration of the houses.

The choice of the flower was very important, the same it was happening with the way to present it. When the flowers were upside-down, the intention were the the opposite of that they meant. Thus, tulips with stems for top demonstrated the noisy rejection of the boyfriend. When the ribbon was moored to the left, the mentioned meaning who gave the flowers. If it was moored to the right, who was mentioned received it. This, on the other hand, it was always answered using the flower in many ways - as natural, on the heart it meant love, but if it was in the hair it advised caution.

From Candlemas to the Christmas, the plants transmit our feelings without needing to appeal to the written word. The ivy express allegiance and, when it comes folloied of some jonquils, it asks for the return of the allegiance.

The inconsolablel suitor sends carnations, but poor girl who receives narcissuses - the shipper is always more interested in himself exactly.

The passionate candidates must take care when choosing roses, therefore the rose-of-one hundred-leves are love ambassadress and it invites the loved one for a meeting on moonlight.

Os pretendentes apaixonados devem tomar cuidado ao escolher rosas, pois
a rosa-de-cem-folhas é embaixadora de amor e convida a amada para um encontro ao luar.

This book is dedicated to the people who like to give, to receive and to arrange flowers, so they can color and perfume its houses, this way, people become more welcomer and very special.

Sheila Pickles, Canonbury, 1989