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The graceful art of speaking through flowers.  Originally called "talking bouquets" and "word posies" tussie-mussies are sweet smelling and symbolic flower arrangements that Victorians exchanged in lieu of written greetings.  Today Geraldine Laufer, a floral poet, revives the art of tussie-mussies and shows how to make them in this full-color celebration of craft, lore and language.

Step-by-step, Tussie-Mussies covers the delightful task of crafting individual flowers and herbs into a message, how to cut the flowers and greens to finishing the handle and creating the holder.  Then Ms. Laufer shares sixty of her favorite tussie-mussies.

Tussie-Mussies is one of "Leanne's Favorite Books."