Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
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.)

That could make sense. Cants have rose fields to the west of Mile End
village just north of Colchester.