In message , Sacha
writes
I've been asked by the people at Pillnitz if we know of the Mile End
Nurseries in London. I can't find any mention of them but wonder if anyone
else knew of them?
The manager of the Pillnitz garden says that this famous Camellia very
probably came from a tree nursery near London called Mile End. Apparently,
a gardener from that nursery became a gardener to the Queen of Naples.


Google finds a reference to the nurseries of Cants of Colchester by that
name. (See also URL:http://www.cantsroses.co.uk/enquiryform.htm.)
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Stewart Robert Hinsley