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Flowers have a language all their own, thanks to the Victorians’ issues with emotional repression, and this must have resulted in all manner of miscommunications.

Say what you like about our stilted techno-exchanges: a bouquet of peonies (which could denote shame, romance, shyness or family honour) was surely more frustrating than an emoji-based text.