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- Perpetual Carnations and their Scent by A Morgan 1953
- Trying to get it right with P.F.'s By Fred Wynn1999
- CATALOGUES AT TEN O'CLOCK By. Morrison Nicholson 2000
- Pinks for 2000 By Fred Wynn
- The Pleasure of Pinks by Stella Tracey 1999
- Perfect Picotees by Ron Bowers 1994
- Exhibitors and Judging by Monty Ray 1994
- Another Convert! 1994 by Alfred Guy
- What Kind of Bone
- Mixed Up by Bill Buxton 1997 Yearbook
- Bizarres, Flakes and Picotees 1999
- The BNCS and the RHS 1999
- Breeding new varieties, 1998 Yearbook
- I Look Back in Envy by Ron Bowers 2005
- The Sweet William by Brinley Thomas, 1961/62 Yearbook
- Richard Bibby 1992
- It is your society, 1935 (modified)
- To a Picotee, 1935
- OBITUARY - ARTHUR ROBINSON
- David Crompton Obituary
To a Picotee, 1935
To a Picotee.
Halo of Loveliness! If I were King,
And all the glorious gardens my domain, To Thee, already crowned with scarlet ring,
I’d give the power as Fairy Queen to reign. Adhering mists, that clinging to thy form, Turn into fragrant globules of delight, Dispersed by wind and sun as soon as born,
Making the garden sweeter in their flight. Thy namesake “Fair Maiden,” at beauty’s call,
To mirrowed face, her crowning bloom applies, Whilst Thou, serene, regardless of it all,
With nature’s sweetness cheers admiring eyes. Halo of Loveliness! If we could give,
And getting no return, spread gifts like thee, This world would be a better place to live, And we’d learn wisdom from a picotee.
J. BROOKS.