Like all plants, flowers are famously unable to speak. Yet they tell stories: about their appearance, their discoverers, their healing or toxic properties, or how they came into this world. However, flowers do not reveal this knowledge directly; instead, they hide it in their names or conceal it behind anecdotes. In Isabel Kranz's illustrated dictionary, the tradition of the language of flowers continues: she attributes symbolic power to individual blossoms and establishes rules by which flowers should serve as secret signs for love messages. However, Kranz is less concerned with erotic messages and more with understanding flowers themselves as reading guides: in these interpretations, classics of world literature are read through a floral lens just as much as a sketch by Monty Python, botanical treatises from the 18th century, or popular contemporary romance novels. Histori.