The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-20 00:00:00

THE VISITORS

began to assemble. The gentry, the watchmakers, the
filemakers, the farmers, and the ladies' maids, from
Prescot, from Rainhill, from Roby, from Broadgreen,
and from Liverpool, were represented by fair visitants,
of whose ellailigs the very roses and the devices in
flowers might have been envious. There were
on the field the Revs. E. P. Cearns (president), It. S.
Baines (vice-president), Evans, Sutton, Crockett, and
W. R. Sampson ; Captain Driffield, Lieutenants Hall,
Welsby, Ensign Twist; Messrs. W,,., Pilkington,
Driflield, Cross, Rowson, Collins, Lewis, Bold, Rogers,
Wootton, Gorst, Morris, Barrow, Frederick Eqrle and
party, Bromilovv and party, tin 4 hundreds of others of
the o'4 of the town aid neighbourhood.
THE EXHIBITION

consisted of devices iu flowers of the choicest descrip-
tion, of roses, cut and in pots, pelargoniums, stove and
greenhouse plants, ericas, cineiarias, calceolarias, fucbias,
ferns, balsams, coxcombs, verbenas, petunias, lycopb-
diums, hardy shrubs, baskets of flowers, bouquets for the
hand, cut pansies, carnations, pinks, dahlias, pine apples,
grapes—black and white, peaches, nectarines, melons,
cherries, strawberries, apples, peas, all kinds of vege-
tables, Spanish and English poultry, dorkings, Cochin
China, golden and silver spangled Hamburghs, game
cocks, hens and chickens, bantams of all 'varieties,
ducks Aylesbury and Rouen pigeons, balds, beards, rents,
fantails, and owls. The competitors comprised the peer
and the peasant, the professional horticulturist and the
professional florist, the cottager and the fernier ;
shewing, as we think, that the high and the l'ow, the
rich and the poor, the titled nobleman and tideless
peasant in this pretty little yillage are doing all they
can to gratify and interest, to better and to instruct, each
other. Nothing, we think, can be more pleasing than to
find noblemen of the class of the Earl of Derby and
others, whose mansions rise on hill and dale around
Prescot, not only lending their names as " patrons" of
competitive meetings of the peasant florist, but actually
sharing in the risks of competition with meta who are
numbered among their dependents: Via Earl of Derby
exhibited a splendidivory'prilni, yid a most expiisitely
lovely basket of flowers ; and ltie was successful in
winning prizes for ferns, for six varieties of exotics, for
a collection of ornamental plants not in flower, bouquet
for the hand, for verbenas, for grapes, for peaches,
for cherries, for a basket of fruit, and for vegetables
of various sorts. Mr. J. B Leatherbarrow won the
firat prizes for stove and greenhouse plants, for.
fuchsias (six varieties),:for gloxineaa (four varieties),, for
gooseberries; and the second prize kr &lir varieties of
fuchsias, w.bicli, aa we have PTeTict4l7 des•Cril)ed them,
were extremely handsome flowera. The Rev. R. C.
Crockett took the first prises for ferns, for •lycopodiums,
for roses (six varieties), for cut roses, and several other
flowers; and we cannot do less than endorse the justice
of the judgment of the adjudicators. It would be
almost useless to re-state here what may be leernt from
the prize list appended ; and we therefore say that` every
competitor dtcl hts best, and in doing so produced such a
collection of lovely flowers and pleats as the eye could
scarcely light npon without being highly gratified. There
were a large number of !lowers of YiltillnS sorts exhi-
bited, not, however, for competition, Mr. Thos. J. Booth
showed a number of geraniums and fuchsias, and a new
plant of the loveliest description, called the hydrangea
cyanena, lately brought into this country from India.
The device of flowers invented by Mr. C. Whittle, of
the Victoria Gardens, St. Helens, deserves esreitil
mention. It consisted of the choicest blossoms, arranged
with beautifully-iritricate ingenuity. 'ln the poultry
most of the competitors were commended or highly
commended, and not without reason. Mr. Richard
Tebey, of Fulwoud, exhibited by far the most beautiful
Spanish fowls ; and the nominal price at which his first
prize collection was laid was no less a sum than £1,600,
whilst the second prize fowls were laidat £l,OOO. Capt.
Hornby, of Knowsley Cottage, was the only competitor
for the prize for the best dorkings, and creditably carried
it oft'. The best Pcchin-China was exhibited by Mr. W.
Dawson, and the second best by Captain Hamby and
Mr. John Friar. Captain Horuby took first prizes also
for game fowl, chickens, not game, and single
game cock. The first prizes .for golden and t'ilver.
spangled and pencilled Hamburghs., were taken by Mr.
W. C. Worrell, of Knotty-ash.• The pigeons were very
handsome, especially those of Mr. Daniel Thwaites, of
Rock Ferry, who took the first and second prizes. The
balds and beards of Mr. Sefton, and the beards of Mr.
J. W. Edge, and the only specimen of runt, displayed
by Mr. Child, of Birmingham, deserves all special
notice. In owls Mr. Edward Worrell and Mr. Child
were victorions, All the birds, in fact, were handsome
specimens of the tame and feathered tribes.
The following is the prize list :

PLANTS, &c.
NURSERYMEN'S Pat:mi.—Stove Plants, 4 varieties : First
prize. George Davies, Stanley Nursery. Ericas, 6 varieties :
First prize, Geo. Davies, Stanley Nursery.
PRIVATE GROWERS.__-Stove Plants, 0 varieties: First prize,
J. B. Leatherbarrow, Charles Jones, gardener. Stove Plants,
4 varieties : Virst prize, J. B. Leatherbarrow, Charles Jones,
gardener. Single Stove Plant : First prize, J. B. Leatherbar-
row, Charles Jones, gardener. Roses, in pots, 6 varieties
Rev. R. P. Crocket ; Geo. Ward, gardener. Best Collection
of Ornamental Plants not in flower : G. P. Cearn, Esq., W.
Murray, gardener; second prize, Earl of Derby; JohnJenning,
gardener. Fuchsias, six varieties : First prize, J. B. Leather-
barrow; C. Jones, gardener, Fuchsias, four varieties : First
prize, Robt. Roby; second prize, J. B. Leatherbarrow.
Fuchsias, single specimen : P. Birrell, Roby. Lycopodiums,
six varieties : Rev R P Crocket; 0 Ward, gardener. Gloxi-
neas, four varieties: First prize, J. E. Leatherbarrow; C
Jones, gardener; second prize, R Blrrel, Roby. Ferns, Exotic,
six varieties: First prize, Rev R P Crocket; 0 Ward. garde-
ner; second prize, Earl of Derby. Verbenas, in pots, six
varieties : First prize, R Birrell. Roby.

CUT FLOWERS.
Device in Flowers : First prize, C Whittle, Victoria
gardens; second prize, Edmund Sefton. Basket of Cut
Flowers : First prize, Earl of Derby ; J Jenning, gardener.
Roses, cut, twelve varieties : First prise, S Brocklebank ; H.
Morris, gardener; second prize, Rev R P Crocket. Roses,
six varieties : First prize, Rev R P Crocket ; second prize, S
Brocklebank. Bouquet for hand : First prize, Earl of Derby;
second prize, 0 Beesley. Pansies, cut, twenty-four specimens :
First and second prizes, It Grinaston, Ashton. Pansies, twelve
specimens : First and second prizes, R Griniston, Ashton.
Antirrhinums, six varieties: First prize, T Heyes,, Preseot ;
second prize, 3 Howard. Verbenas, eight varieties : First
prize, C Whittle ; second prize, Earl of Derby. Stocks, cut,
six specimens : First prize, C Whittle ; second prize, W
Waine. Pinks, stand of, eight varieties : First and second
prizes, R Grimston. Ashton.