Talk:Birth flower

Origin and notability

Can anybody add some proof to demonstrate that this is not just a load of old tosh made up by some florists on a slow day? If it is something with real historic roots (forgive the pun) then it needs to be referenced better and have its history and context explained. If it is just marketing tosh to sell more flowers then it should be pruned. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:46, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I modified the article with using tables for listing the each flower and their meanings. On the US part, I copied from the tool-page of a telephone notebook, where no reference I can find out for it. As it was printed for people's daily use in the notebook, I guest that should be the modern style of US, just like the category of Birthstones styles listed in Wikipedia.--Gzyeah (talk) 10:52, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Probably, as Daniel Rigal suspects, a florist association's marketing ploy. But so was the birthstone, at least in its modern form. Cross Reference (talk) 16:19, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]