Tie your bouquet more accurately.
By, and by. 48 ₁ Do, does, doing. 49 ₁ Else, where. 54 ₁ Ever. 55 ₁ Where, ever. 92 ₁ Weather. 875 ₁ Whether. 881 ₁ Weather. 885 ₁ Noon. 61 ₂ Nor. 62 ₂ Nobody. 63 ₂ Nothing. 64 ₂ Beacon. 188 ₂ Bow. 189 ₂ Breeze, s. 190 ₂ Baffle, s. d. 191 ₂ Chafe. 230 ₂ Chain. 231 ₂ Channel. 232 ₂ Character, s, ized. 233 ₂ Cold. 247 ₂ Combination. 248 ₂ Communicate, s, d. 250 ₂ Compose, s, d. 251 ₂ Hard, er, ly. 404 ₂ Harden, s, ed. 405 ₂ Havoc. 406 ₂ Hazard, s, ed, ous. 407 ₂ Influence, d. 432 ₂ Ink. 433 ₂ Instance. 434 ₂ Undo, did, done. 604 ₂ What, ever. 631 ₂ When, nce, ever. 632 ₂ Where, ever, of, on. 633 ₂ Wherry. 634 ₂ Tie your bouquet more accurately. 140 ₃
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ex The floral telegraph; or Affection’s signals, by the Late Captain Marryatt [sic]. London : Saunders and Otley, [1850?] Cornell copy, accessible at hathitrust : link
₁ : from Vocabulary, Part I, “One knot to be tied on the string between each number [i.e., flower].” ₂ : from Vocabulary, Part II, “Two knots to be tied before each number.” ₃ : from Vocabulary, Part III, “Three knots to be tied before each number.”
see Daniel Wuebben, “Captain Frederick Marryat and the Floral Telegraph; Or, a Forgotten Coder and his Floral Code,” Victorian Literature and Culture 42:2 (June 2014) : 209-233 : link (no access); link (readable, at least)
uncertain that Marryat is the author, but no matter. Small matters are signs of great things. 303 ₃
