From ancient times flowers are a constant companion of our lives. But not only the beauty and fragrance made people bow down to them. Since time immemorial, it was thought that the flowers have more magic and a gift to express the diversity of human feelings and relationships. So far, for many flowering plants retained a certain symbolic significance: the lily - purity of thoughts and deeds; Violet - modesty and innocence; shamrock - waiting; aster-sorrow: forget-me - memory, every yellow flower - separation; bluebell - a merry mood, saffron ( crocus) - happiness, pansy - loyalty and love hyacinth - grief and sorrow; peony - longevity; poppy - beauty and youth daisy - peace and love, cloves - the constancy and fidelity; roses - at all times and among all nations signify love . There was, and So-called "language of flowers", supposedly rooted in the East, where he served as a secret way to transfer messages of love. In Russia the "language of flowers" was originally known from Western European sources under the Persian name "villages" - a greeting. It was only in 1830, Russian poet Dmitri Petrovich Oznobishin translated from Persian and published in St. Petersburg, the book "Selam, or Language of Flowers" in which to place more than four hundred names of plants, each of which corresponded to a slight utterance, or a brief remark in a possible conversation on this fictional "language". He offered his readers an intricate game like the one that begins with the words: "I was born a gardener, not a little angry .... "Selam" Oznobishin played a role in the dissemination of natural science, has left its mark in Russian poetry. Flowers have a bowl to be used in poems by Russian poets, to serve "rich spring fascinating comparisons. That's what "they say" some of the plants: aster - Do you know how to love always?; Hawthorn - I'm ecstatic; when you sing; knapweed - be simple, as it is; carnation field - you are beautiful; geraniums - I have to secretly talk with you; hyacinth - the number of buds will tell you the day the meeting; potato color - you have to trump everything, lily of the valley - a long time, and secretly I loved you; lemon leaf - good-bye; blooming poppies - you build son.4margaritki - I wish you all the best; Peony - as You nedogadliv!, Reseda - not your beauty, and goodness captivated my heart; branch of roses - yes; leaf roses - no, cherries - like you I rejoice!; rose - can you believe?; woodruff - be happy and my friendship. If we calculated which of the colors most strongly expressed the love of recognition, it would give the advantage of pink. Word of the passions commonly found in bright red, belief and expectations - for blue, and obedience - in purple, sorrow, purity and tenderness - for white pride and flirting - in orange, betrayal - a yellow, friendship - in purple. Sometimes a bouquet tied with string of pearls or beads. In the first case, emphasized the beauty of that, who the flowers were addressed in the second - sadly, referring to her exclusion. Of course, such rules were not something mandatory, static and unchanging. Different people are sometimes looked strange and ingenious, like the foreign language. If bred a medieval knight asked the hand of his lady, he could send her roses with myrtle - a symbol of marriage, Daisy, passed in response to acknowledgment and acceptance, a wreath of them spoke about the delay, the need to consider the proposal. The Chinese love expressed peony, and the British replaced it with forget-me. The symbol of spring in different times and in different countries were, and lily of the valley, and the primrose and lilac. The language of flowers was also inconsistent because the historical events frequently make changes in the symbolism of plants. Lily has always meant purity and cleanliness. But when she approached the church, a modest flower began to express the brutality and grief by participating in the grim ceremony of burning heretics. The painting of the English painter of the XIX century Burton shows the preparations for the execution, when the priest puts on the head of the unfortunate victims of fanaticism hood painted devils. Next to the prisoners - a young woman - standing tub with a white lily and a burning torch ... inquisitors said that burning in flames, a sinner likened to a flower and her soul will be pure and sinless The ancient Greeks violet meant sadness. The graves are often dissolved purple petals. They also considered a symbol of spring. This violet liked more. Wreaths of flowers put on a spring afternoon at the head of a three-year children. This meant that passed the earliest, carefree time of their lives. Gentleness, shyness, modesty - that symbolized the now violet.