19 NOVEMBER 1836, Page 20

ome ingenious person has devised a sort of floral .cipher

for he aid of lovers, a hen &barred the use of speech, or pet: and ink. It consists in employing flowers, arranged in a particular manner, rs the arbitrary signs of certain words ; the signification of the billet-bouquet being interpreted by vocabularies. There was some prettiness in the idea of expresing a sentiment or quality by a flower, but this floral short-hand is mere mechanical trifling. The system (such as it is) is propounded in an elegant little duodecimo, entitled The Floral Telegraph, in a manner quite in keeping with its absurdity.