The Language of Flowers: Constraints The Language of Flowers is an emblematic mapping of flowers onto "sentiments" (whether single-word emotions or descriptions of emotional complexes) which, according to the author, expounds the meaning of flowers and their internal textual poetry. Since this text structures itself as a sort of systematic dictionary, in which flowers are directly matched with sentiments in one-to-one correspondence, the organization may be crossed and utilised beyond the simple deployment of flowers as supplementary within a narrative. Keep in mind that there are over 1000 editions of The Language of Flowers which may include more or fewer flowers. Some possibilities utilising the Milner & Sowerby edition from 1862: V1 -- A Word Becomes Emotion A word, name, or sentence may be transformed into a sequence of "sentiments" as follows: Choose a word, name, sentence, or sequence of letters. For each letter in the name, word, etc... look up the corresponding flower in The Language of Flowers. If there are multiple flowers slotted under said letter, which there usually are, use the next letter to further specify. If there are multiple flowers slotted under said double letter combination, use the position of your letter to specify which flower to choose. If your letter combination does not appear, choose the previous letter combination. Once you have completed this process for each letter in the word, name, etc... you may utilise this sequence in further operations. Some possibilities could include: the choreography of a conversation, direct transcoding of the sentiment sequence as a poem, subjection to expansion-by-tautogram, combination through Mathews' Algorithm, etc... EG: Word = SILVER S(I) [1[st]] = Siberian Crab Tree Blossom = "Deeply interesting" I(L) [2[nd]] (prev; IE) = Iee Plant = "You freeze me" L(V) [3[rd]] (prev; LU) = Lupine = "Voraciousness" V(E) [4[th]] = Vernal Grass = "Poor but happy" E(R) [5[th]] = (prev; EN) = Endive = "Frugality" R(S) [6[th]] = (prev; RO) = Rosemary = "Fidelity, remembrance" Deeply interesting, You freeze me, Voraciousness, Poor but happy, Frugality, Fidelity/Remembrance V2 -- A Bouquet Is Decoded A bouquet of flowers may be decoded into a complex of sentiments communicated through matching each flower to its meaning in The Language of Flowers. This could be utilised to construct narratives out of bouquets, choreograph a conversation or narrative through "reading" the bouquet, etc... EG: purple hydrangea = "Boaster" pink roses = "Genteel, pretty" yellow spray roses = "Infidelity" orange asiatic lilies = "Forsaken" purple alstroemeria = // [not included] blue delphinium = // pink snapdragons = "Presumption" blue eryngium = // huckleberry = // oregonia = // Israeli ruscus = // sword fern = "Sincerity" silver dollar eucalyptus = // seeded eucalyptus = // lemon leaf = "Zest"