What’s up with the name?

❋ Pronunciation

flo·ri·le·gium

❋ Meaning

Latin for a culling or gathering of flowers

❋ History

Used to describe a collection of flowers.

Historically a collection of illustrated flowers in a garden or someone’s collection.

❋ Famous Florilegium

Hortus Eystettensis (Garden of Eichstatt) by Basilius Besler, a German botanist in 1613 describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstatt in Bavaria.

Is there any thing lovelier than the idea of a gathering of flowers?