Jewels, Symbolism, Botany and Floriography

Victorian botanical research created the fundamental understanding of modern symbolic flora interpretations. Classifying the plants of the known world to a value of emotional fact was part of the Enlightenment’s late 18th century interest in aligning scientific understanding to all elements of life.  Historical and classical values of known species were carried into human rationale… Continue reading Jewels, Symbolism, Botany and Floriography