already mentioned, was by Buckingham, the sire, as will be shown in the course of these notices, of four royal prize cows. As the connections of Buckingham's dam, Bracelet (the winner at Liverpool in 1841), have also been considered, we need only add, in examining the composition of Charity's pedigree, the sire of Buckingham, Colonel Cradock's Mussulman, the offspring of an alliance between the Hartforth Magnum Bonum and Old Cherry.

Charity has become one of the most renowned of the Warlaby cows, not merely on account of her personal merits, which were of the highest order, but by reason chiefly of her near relationship to Crown Prince, the bull perhaps of all others bred at Warlaby who has most impressively stamped upon the Warlaby herd the qualities that have rendered it so remarkable during the last twelve or thirteen years. A gentleman who acted as a judge upon one occasion when she carried all before her, observed to us, "She was, considering all her points, as nearly perfect as a cow could be, and she is the youngest looking old cow I ever saw. She is as round as a barrel yet, and nearly as compact as ever." This was in the autumn of 1857, and her eleventh year had been completed. Charity was the mother of four calves at least-Crown Prince by Fitz-Leonard, Comfort by Leonidas, Cheerful by Lord George, and Sir Samuel by Crown Prince. Sir Samuel is of course both her son and her grandson.

EXETER, 1850.

Senator (8548), bred by the Earl of Carlisle; exhibited by Mr. Ambler, Watkinson Hall, Halifax.

Isabella Buckingham, (II. B. IX., p. 401,) bred by and the property of Mr. Richard Booth.

In Senator's three latest crosses the Booth element is present in very considerable quantity. The herds of Messrs. Whittaker and Wiley have likewise contributed in no contemptible measure to produce the blood of which his ancestry was composed. His pedigree, showing sound ingredients throughout, comprises names belonging to some of the most noted. Castle Howard families.

Isabella Buckingham, the own sister of Vanguard (whose long-continued usefulness and extraordinary value as a sire, of females especially, have placed him in a position of eminence even among Warlaby bulls), and halfsister, by the dam, to Fitz-Leonard, the sire of Crown-Prince, was the third of Buckingham's daughters that gained the first prize in the first class at a royal show. The dams of her father and mother respectively were the Killerby Bracelet and the Warlaby Isabella by Pilot. Her maternal grandsire was young Matchem; not the Young Matchem mentioned in the notice of Ladythorn's parentage-there were two Booth Young Matchems—but his half-brother. Both these bulls were by Mason's Matchem; one was out of a Killerby cow, the other from a dam of the old Warlaby, "Carnation"

sort.

WINDSOR, 1851.

Earl of Scarborough, (9064) bred by Mr. H. L. Maw, Tetley; exhibited by Mr. Wetherell, Kirkbridge.

Plum Blossom, (H. B. X., p. 526) bred by and the property of Mr. Richard Booth.

"The splendidly bred bull, Earl of Scarborough, was a son of Mr. Bate's Roan Duke, of the Duchess, Norfolk, Belvidere, and old Stockburn blood. His dam's sire was Sir Charles Tempest's Saxe Coburg; and the rest of his pedigree consists of the names of Belvidere 2d, Bellerophon, and Kit, or Waterloo. The paternity of the great-great-granddam seems to have been doubtful.

Plum Blossom's name denotes the famous female line to which she belongs. She was the fourth Buckingham cow, to whom the highest firstclass royal honors were awarded. But higher honors than any within the power of the Royal Society to give, awaited this admirable specimen of a pure-bred shorthorn of the truest and the oldest blood. Not three months after the show she brought forth one of the most illustrious sires of modern times, Windsor, to whom the name was given in commemoration of his dam's triumph in the face of all England; a bull who, though not the sire of a very numerous progeny, was the sire of none but animals of a superior class wherever he went, and, at Warlaby, of animals that will bear comparison with his celebrated dam. Plum Blossom, like most cows prepared for exhibition at the leading shows, was but moderately prolific. Before Windsor she produced one calf, Peach Blossom by Water King (11024) and after him with an interval of trial extending nearly over three years, the beautiful white heifer Own Sister to Windsor.

LEWIS, 1852.

Phoenix (10608), bred by and the property of Mr. T. Chrisp, Hawkhill, near Alnwick.

Butterfly (H. B. XI., p. 354), bred by and the property of Colonel Towneley of Towneley.

The sire of Phoenix was by Belleville, and from a cow of Belleville's blood. His dam possessed immediately three consecutive crosses of Mr. Crofton's bulls, Guy Fax, the Peer, and Bachelor (inheritors of the finest blood), preceded by Mr. T. Jobling's Wellington, R Colling's Admiral, and some of the primitive shorthorns.

Butterfly was a granddaughter of the celebrated cow Brampton Rose, whose pedigree, representing in the foreground the herds of the Wetherells, the Collings, and Mason of Chilton, leads beyond, up to the earliest shorthorn records. Of Butterfly's sire (the late Mr. John Booth's Jeweller), we may remark that he was bred from animals which were own brother and sister in blood. His father (Hamlet, by Leonard) was a son of Bracelet; and his mother (Jewel, also by Leonard), a daughter of Bracelet's twin sister Necklace. The dam of Butterfly, Buttercup by Garrick, was out of the veritable Brampton Rose. Garrick, a well bred bull, owed his existence to a combination of very dissimilar materials derived from nume

rous sources.

GLOUCESTER, 1853.

Pat (13456), bred by and the property of Lord Berners, Keythorpe Hall, Rugby.

Vellum (H. B. XI., p. 733), bred by Sir Chas. Tempest, Broughton Hall, Skipton; exhibited by Mr. H. Smith, the Grove, Bingham, Notts.

We scarcely know what to say of Pat. His pedigree has some good names in it, but is certainly not what can be called a good pedigree. The half supplied by the dam is unexceptionable. In his sire's pedigree the name of Roderick Random occurs. This ball, formerly "The Kicker," a considerable prize-taker in his day, competed with Duke of Northumberland at Oxford.

Vellum, by Abraham Parker, a son of Lax's Mehemet Ali and Sir Charles Tempest's Lily by the Warlaby Brutus, was well bred also on the dam's side. Her pedigree goes quickly back to names connected with fine old blood.

LINCOLN, 1854.

Vatican (12260), bred by Earl Ducie; exhibited by Mr. Sandy, Holme Pierrepont, and Mr. H. Smith, The Grove, Bingham, Notts.

Beauty (H. B. X., p. 265), bred by Mr. Bannerman of Chorley; the property of Colonel Towneley of Towneley.

Vatican's pedigree has at its foundation materials connected chiefly with the shorthorns of Ladykirk, and is of a sterling character throughout. In the later crosses very choice miscellaneous ingredients coalesce. His sire, Usurer, communicated the Wiseton element. The sire of his dam, Mr. Whittaker's Petrarch, introduced an admixture of the Castle Howard and Warlaby strains united to the blood of Mr. W. Johnson's celebrated cow, Starville; and by the bull next in order, 2d Duke of York, the Kirklevington Duchess blood was imparted.

Beauty must be considered a pure Booth cow. Her sire, Victor, bred by Mr. Bannerman, was by Beau of Killerby (a son of Raspberry), the Killerby and Warlaby strains, free from any additional blood, were mingled; and the dam of Beauty was the late Mr. John Booth's Mantle by Marcus.

CARLISLE, 1855.

Windsor (14013), bred by and the property of Mr. Richard Booth. Bridesmaid (H. B., XI, p. 384), bred by and the property of Mr. Richard Booth.

Windsor, a son of the royal first prize cow Plum Blossom, was by Crown Prince. Crown Prince was a son of the royal first prize cow Charity, grandson of the royal first prize cow Hope, and sire of the royal first prize cows Nectarine Blossom and Queen of the Ocean. The sire of Crown Prince, Fitz-Leonard, was from the dam of the royal first prize cow Isabella Buckingham, and by Leonard, the sire of the royal first prize cow just mentioned. Allusion has elsewhere been made to Windsor.

Bridesmaid's sire, Harbinger, was a son of the royal first prize cow Hope, and by Baron Warlaby, an own brother to the royal first prize oow Cherry Blossom. The dam of Bridesmaid, Bianca, by Leonard, bred by Bride Elect, and the bulls Brideman, British Prince, and Prince of Warlaby.

CHELMSFORD, 1856.

Master Butterfly (13311), bred and exhibited by Colonel Towneley, of Towneley.

Roan Duchess 2d (H. B., XII, p. 578), bred by and the property of Col. Towneley.

Master Butterfly was dorbly descended, once through each of his parents from Brampton Rose. His sire, Frederick, was by Mr. Lax's Duke (of Col. Cradock's Cherry tribe), and from Brampton Rose's daughter Bessy, by Thick Hock, a bull of Colling and Mason extraction. For the female line of Master Butterfly's pedigree, we refer our readers to the remarks on his dam, the winner at Lewes in 1852. Master Butterfly was sold, shortly after his victory at Chelmsford, to an Australian breeder, for the sum of 1,200 guineas.

Roan Duchess 2d, a daughter of Frederick, (whose family connections are treated of in the foregoing paragraph,) and of Roan Duchess by Whittington, has one of the most interesting pedigrees we ever analyzed. It shows a line of dams, fourteen in number, extending over a period of about seventy years, and proceeding from the excellent Sockburn short-horns. The sires of these females were, without a single exception, bulls of the choicest blood. The first of them, Whittington, the grandfather of Roan Duchess 2d, was by a bull of the Medora family, and his dam was descended from the strains of George Coates and Sir G. S rickland, with some splendid intermediate crosses. Then come, in the following order, Bate's 2d Cleveland Lad and Duke of Northumberland, Norfolk, Belvidere, Belvidere again, R. Colling's Lancaster, C. Colling's Petrarch and Major, and, besides these, five names having little or no record of breeding attached to them, as the animals they represent lived in a time when the family histories of our cattle were but negligently attended to. Yet these are names with which every one accustomed to examine Herd Book pedigrees is familiarly acquainted; they lie at the foundation of many of the noblest shorthorned genealogies; and they possess universal authority as expressing the judgment and experience of the pioneers of short-horn breeding.

SALISBURY, 1857.

John O'Groat (13090), bred by Mr. F. A. Fawkes, Farnley Hall, Otley; the property of Mr. Stirling, M. P., of Keir, Dunblane.

Victoria (H. B., XII, p. 521), bred by and the property of Col. Towneley. John O'Groat's breeding is one of the most diversified character. His pedigree, consisting of five crosses, displays, on minute examination of the various lines which meet in him, the names of animals bred by Messrs. Fawkes, Whittaker, Lawson, Ambler, Mason, Sir Charles Tempest, Earl Ducie, Colonel Cradock, and many other cultivators of the best short-horn tribes.

Victoria, by Valiant, a bull of pure Killerby blood, was from a four cross dam whose pedigree exhibits a mixture of various well known good families with others of obscure lineage.

CHESTER, 1858.

Fifth Duke of Oxford (12762), bred by Earl Ducie; the property of Lord Feversham.

Nectarine Blossom (H. B., XII, p. 521), bred by and the property of Mr. Richard Booth.

Fifth Duke of Oxford represents the finest pure Kirklevington families. He was purchased by Lord Feversham at the Tortworth sale in 1853, when only five months old, for 300 guineas.

Nectarine Blossom, with her superb Warlaby pedigree, headed by Crown Prince, demands special attention on account of her distinguished kindred, as well as on the score of her own showyard achievements. Her dam, Haw. thorn Blossom, (a half sister to Cherry Blossom,) produced, besides Nectarine Blossom herself, the Royal prize cow Plum Blossom, Bloom (the dam. of Venus Victrix and Neptune), and the well known bulls Benedict and Highthorn. Many of the offspring of Crown Prince have reputations that render any eulogistic personalities altogether needless.

This is the second time the rival denominations of Booth and Bates divided the honors between them; the first occasion was at Liverpool in 1841. Fifth Duke of Oxford was acknowledged by Booth men to be a truly noble specimen of Kirklevington bulls; and Nectarine Blossom extorted from the admirers of Bates short-horns a cheerful admission of her true Warlaby type, combined with a more than ordinary exhibition of style and grace.

WARWICK, 1859.

Radford (15122), bred by Mr. Lythall, Radford, Leamington; the property of Mr. J. H. Bradburne, Lichfield.

Matchless 4th (H. B., XIV., p. 586. See Matchless 6th), bred by and the property of Mr. R. Stratton, Broad Hinton, Wilts.

An analysis of Radford's pedigree discovers the presence of Fawsley blood in the proportion of rather more than one-half. He is connected, through his sire's dam, with the Sylph or Charmer family, in which it has been said, "there is as much of the pure blood of Favorite (252) as can be found in any existing tribe of Short-horns;" and through the sire of his maternal grand-dam he is descended from the herds of Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Parkinson, and the Earl of Carlisle. Beyond these we have animals bred by Mr. Cartright, of Tathwell.

The brief lineage of Matchless 4th comprehends some sires of ancient descent. Of these, two of the most influential appear to have been Red Duke (8634) and Phoenix (6290), each from a grand-daughter of Mr. T. Jobling's Wellington (683), formerly Rockingham (560). Wellington-a son of R. Colling's Minor (441) by Favorite, and out of a cow by R. Colling's Phenomenon (491), also by Favorite-was let for fifteen successive years at £100 a year, and died at Mr. Bellamy's in Warwickshire.

CANTERBURY, 1860.

Royal Butterfly (1662), bred by and the property of Colonel Towneley. Rosette (H. B., XIV., p. 863), bred by Mr. Wetherell; the property of Mr. Eastwood, of Swinshawe, Burnley.

Royal Butterfly and Master Butterfly (the winner at Chelmsford in 1856), were own brothers, and both out of the Lewes prize cow. Cases of this sort are of rare occurrence.

Rosette has a five-cross pedigree of mixed blood, the chief ingredients being derived from the herds of Colonel Cradock and Messrs. Raine, Lax, Booth, Stephenson and Bates. Her sire, Mr. T. Raine's Earl of Derby (12810), was one of the most symmetrical bulls of his day.