THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 147 
held up in the hand is the affirmative, 
and a piece of Geranium is the nega¬ 
tive — unless you should make this 
distant communication a secret as well 
as the rest, by agreeing together upon 
other Flowers. 
“ It may be thought that a long 
communication would render the 
bouquet too large, but this will not 
be the case if the Flowers be tied up 
very tightly. Should it, however, 
appear too bulky, you have an easy 
remedy, which is, to put occasionally 
very small sprigs, which will denote 
the figures they represent just as well 
as larger ones, and, when all tied up 
together, will not appear of a dispro¬ 
portionate or an inelegant size. 
If you wish numerals to give the 
