The language of flowers

Back in the day, people would send bouquets fraught with meaning. You could buy little handbooks with lists of the language of flowers, so you could anxiously decipher the bouquet sent to you. You’d better hope that you and the sender were using the same system, because some of these meanings are different than the ones on other lists… Thank goodness we have emojis nowadays!

Cornflower—riches
Daisy—attachment
Hundred-leaved rose — sincere love
Violet—modesty
Convolvulus (bind weed)—tender...