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Cherry blood into the Booth herds, and illus- 

 trated the vivifying effect of a judicious out- 

 cross upon tribes that had been interbred 

 for generations. No further proof of this is 

 needed than the mere mention of the fact that 

 Buckingham left at Warlaby, among other val- 

 uable progeny, the celebrated Charity, Plum 

 Blossom, Bloom, Medora, Vivandiere, Isabella 

 Buckingham, Vanguard, Hopewell, Benedict 

 and Baron Warlaby. Bracelet's famous daugh- 

 ter. Birthday, in turn produced the prize- win- 

 ning heifer Gem (which Dixon says was Mr. 

 Booth's model as respects compactness, beauti- 

 ful hair and fine, even quality of flesh) and the 

 w^hite bull Lord George (10439), the sire of the 

 2d Duke of Athol (11376), in the pedigrees of 

 Mr. Alexander's American Duchesses of Airdrie. 

 Another daughter of Bracelet was Pearl, gran- 

 dam of Pearly, bought by Col. Towneley at the 

 Killerby sale, that became the dam of the 500- 

 guinea Ringlet. Bracelet was also the dam of 

 the red bull Morning Star (6223), that was sold 

 in 1844 as a two-year-old to Louis Phillippe of 

 France. Before crossing the Channel, how- 

 ever, he begot Vesper, the ancestress of the 

 noted family of that name in the Booth-bred 

 herd of Mr. R. S. Bruere. Necklace produced 

 Jewel, the dam of Jeweller, used in the 

 Towneley herd, the sire of the celebrated 

 Barmpton Rose cow Butterfly. Mantalini, the 



