Miniature Language of Flowers and Alphabet of Floral Emblems. Weldon & Co. 9 Southampton Street, Strand, W.C. London. 1848.Welsh suggests a date of 1848 (but has no other details, no publisher, no identified copy &c.). 128 printed pages. 4 full page woodcut illustrations. Woodcut vignette tailpieces. During the Victorian age, the use of flowers as a means of covert communication, associating flowers with symbolic definitions, coincided with a growing interest in botany. The floriography craze was introduced to Europe by the Englishwoman Mary Wortley Montagu (16891762),