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Nature
has endowed our world with a rich and varied flora and fauna. This
biological heritage has not only beautified our surroundings, but,
over the millions of years has weaved an intricate relationship with
our human lives. In this world of wonders, little wonder each human
emotion is expressed with the token of some craft of nature- for instance,
with token of a flower- concealed with its multifarious folds of petals,
some deep and significant meaning. A flower, in its silent presence,
speaks volume sometimes as an offering to human love, sometimes as
a divine gesture: as the Nobel-laureate Tagore Speaks-
‘ Pluck this little flower and take it,
delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust…
Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time’ (Gitanjali,
VI)
The
exotic language of flowers evolved in the harems of Turkey, used
simply to wile away the time, by guessing the meanings attached
to each individual flower. It was also employed as a medium of secret
communication between lovers.
It
was introduced into the Anglo- Saxon world around the eighteenth
century. The poet and letter- writer Lady Wortley Montague a veteran
traveller of the Oriental world, expresses her fascination with
this unique medium of discreet communication in her famous letters.
As she wrote, “there is no flower without
sentimental meaning…” and that it is possible
to “…quarrel, reproach, or send
letters of passion, friendship, or civility, or even of news, without
ever inking your fingers.”
During the Victorian
era, each flower was furnished with a particular significance .the
Victorians with their love of flowers transformed this language
of flowers into a fine art, even conveying subtle messages through
the arrangement of a vase or a bouquet of blossoms. In fact, this
encoded messaging through a fragrant nosegay was popularly termed
as a ‘Persian Selam’.
Let us talk
the exotic mysterious language of flowers. Let us explore the hidden
meaning enfolded within their beautiful fragrant petals.
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