![]() I also wonder with how they were organized in the book, the flowers were listed alphabetically which works for readers skimming back to find a particular flower but I wonder if by theme would have been better and helped with any repetitions, like a section for love, for grief and sadness, for anger, and organizing it that way may have helped with any flowers with similar meanings. I understand that a lot of flowers have similar meanings, but with all the flowers included in the dictionary I felt like it was a lost opportunity to really understand the history of the flowers. I enjoyed the longer dictionary but would have preferred more illustrations and detail for each flower. ![]() As well as through explanations on some of the flowers Kirkby also includes a dictionary with a list of both the illustrated and a number of flowers not included in the illustrations with their meanings. I really enjoyed the detail in Kirkby’s A Victorian Flower Dictionary is very detailed on the different types of flowers and their meanings. I haven’t read Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s The Language of Flowers which this book acts as a companion to but I’m more interested in now. It’s taken me quite a few years to actually read a book on it but this one certainly won’t be my last. I’ve been interested in Floriography, or the Language of Flowers since I read Hamlet in grade twelve and learned that flowers have meanings. ![]()
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