The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-10 00:00:00

BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The first exhibition for the year of this flourishing so-
ciety took place iii the garde:is of the Royal Rock Ferry
Hotel, on Thursday last; and though the weather was
rather rough, the wind being fresh from the southward,
with a cloudy sky threatening rain, the attendance was
both numerous and fashionable, including many of the
first families and individuals of the locality and its neigh-
bourhood. The show took place in the large tent ; and
the grounds, which are chiefly laid out in shrubberies and
grass, with numerous bowers and arbours, were remark-
ably fresh and attractive after the seasonable rains. The
promenade was enlit,ened by Mr. Parker's Royal Chel-
tenham Band, who played alternately stringed and brass
instruments ; and several ladies and gentlemen at one
time danced the Polka on one of the grass-plots.
Amongst the company were the Venerable Archdeacon
Clarke. the Rev. Mainwaring and friends, the Rev.
R. M. Fielders, lady, and daughters, the Hon. Lady Cust
end daughters, C. Stanley, Esq., lady, arid party, I'.
Turk, Esq., J. G. Wainwright, Esq., S. Vertue, Esq.,
and party, C. Rawson, Esq., J. Wrigley, Esq., and
party, the Commodore and several officers of the Royal
Mersey Yacht Club, and many others of the first respec-
tability. Mr. Errington, from Sir P. Egerton's; Mr.
Dwerryhouse, from New Brighton ; and Mr. Murray,
from Mr. Skirving's nursery, Walton, were the judges.
Some handsome and appropriately-designed medals, of
various values, struck by Mr.lsaacs, lithographer. Castle-
street, and bearing the inscription " Bebingion Horticul-
tural Society, established 1843." were brought forward
and presented to those of the successful competitors who
preferred them to money prizes.
The show of plants, flowers, and fruits, was extremely
good, taking into account the rather backward state of
the season for such productions, and, in the floral depart-
ment especially, included many rare and beautiful speci-
mens. The exotics sent by Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart.,
attracted much attention, especially the azalias. We do
not remember to have seen a better assortment of Cape
heaths, distinct varieties. In these Sir W. M. Stanley
excelled, as did to an almost equal degree Mr. Wainwright,
and also Mr. Killock, of Oxton Nursery, one of whose
plants (the Linnceoides superbus) was a veritable gem.
The last-named gentleman would have obtained a prize,
and indeed it was awarded, but it was withdrawn on its
being found that the exhibitor had sold his specimens.
Mr. liaynes, too, showed some fine plants of this genus,
in classical vases,—one of them a tricolor of about 5 feet
in height, and flowered from top to bottom. Two giant
plants, of the united height of 20 feet 5 inches, though
planted from cuttings only eleven months ago, were
amongst Mr. Wainwright's. A still finer one, of some-
what less height, but flowered and gracefully branched to
the bottom, was in the same collection. Mr. Errington
also sent a splendid Sianhopere (a parasite) suspended in
moss, and with the leaves above and the flowers hanging
in air below. Amongst other plants worthy of notice
were a fine nosegay azalia ; an Anagallis milieu, from
Mr. C. Rawson,—a Chinese curiosity, growing out of a
monster in china-ware ; some splendid cut roses and other
plants, from Messrs. Dixon, of Chester; and a splendid
stove plant, the Thunbergium, covering a trellis, with a
yelloc convolvulus-looking flower. The pelargoniums
were generally fine, particularly those sent by Al r. Winch,
including a beautiful " Lane's Duke of Cornwall," with
a flower -of a fine dark hue. Some good pansies were
shown, but there were not many.
The baskets of cut flowers were all good and tastefully
arranged, Miss Greenharn again beating in this depart-
ment Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart. The fruits and vegeta-
bles, and especially the strawberries, and some giant as-
paragus from Sir P. Egerton, Bart., (not for competition,)
were very superior. The green peas were few, and yet
but small. Some excellent early potatoes were shown by
Mr. H. Littledale, and some superb sticks of rhubarb by
Mr. Mayer. But we must proceed to the