Lily of the Valley
A floral symbol which to the Victorians symbolised humility and purity.
'A garden cemetery and monumental decoration are not only beneficial to public morals, to the improvement of manners, but likewise calculated to extend virtuous and generous feelings'
John Claudius Loudon, 1843, On the laying out, planting, and managing of Cemeteries, and on the improvement of Churchyards.
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