Exhibition extraordinary in the horticultural room / A. Bird invt. et delt. [W.H. Merle] ; etched by G. Cruikshank.

An exhibition in the 'Great Room' of the Horticultural Society, containing portraits of officials and caricatures of spectators; the exhibits embody political and other allusions. The three officials command the room from seats at a raised table, each with a sloping desk. The chairman, John Elliot, F.R.S., hammer in hand, sits between the Secretary and Assistant Secretary. His desk is inscribed: A most respectable Cauliflower always in order--. On his right Joseph Sabine; on his desk: The friend of Mæcenas-- --"arvum cælumq Sabinum non cessat laudare"--Hor. Epist. On Elliot's left, John Turner, Assistant Secretary, wearing spectacles: on his desk: An highly cultivated specimen requires Glass. The exhibits are on an oblong counter against and below that of the officials, and also on a slightly lower annexe to it, having a curved front which corresponds to the horse-shoe benches facing it.