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VISITS TO NURSERIES. 
MESSRS. WILMER AND SONS, KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA. 
We lately saw a very fine bloom of Carnations and Picottees 
at this place. Messrs. Wilmer are well known to the public, 
and their collection of florist’s flowers at Sunbury has long been 
the source from whence many good flowers have been obtained. 
They have lately added this place (formerly in the occupation 
of Mrs. More,) to their other in Sunbury. The collection con¬ 
tains sufficient variety to satisfy the most fastidious; as almost 
every new flower possessed of good points is included, in addi¬ 
tion to the older and established favorites. 
Among them we noticed, as particularly fine, Hale’s Prince 
Albert carnation—a beautiful scarlet bizarre; the colours of 
which are as distinct as could be wished, the white remarkably 
clear, the petals of good texture, and the flower large—alto¬ 
gether a fine, bold, striking variety ; and, in five or six pots of 
it, not a bad flower. Tate’s Tally-ho’ crimson bizarre is an¬ 
other good flower. A seedling—Wilmer’s Hortensis, P. B.— 
was also fine. Among the flakes we may mention Wilmer’s 
Lord Errol, S. F., Wildon’s Earl of Lichfield, S. E-, Wilmer’s 
Endymion, R. F., and Wollard’s Queen Victoria, S. F., as 
being really good flowers. 
The Picottees were very numerous, and the bloom remarkably 
fine. In these flowers we think there is room for improvement 
even yet, notwithstanding the immense number included in 
some of our leading florists’ lists, many of which, doubtless, 
have valuable properties ; but we never yet saw a Picottee such 
as we should call a ne plus ultra. Our idea of perfection may 
be guessed at if a combination be imagined of the colours and 
delicacy of the present Picottee and the smooth edge and sub¬ 
stance of the Carnation. Wilmer’s Niobe is a fine flower in its 
class—a red Picottee. There were also several good flowers of 
Giddins’s; such as, Plenipo, P. P., Vespasian, P. P., Diana, 
&c., and Wilmer’s Queen, light-edged, P. P., and their Diadem, 
heavy-edged P. P., may be also classed as requisite flowers in 
every collection. 
