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family,Cherry Blossom, in the show-yard. In 1851 

 the roan four-year-old cow Plum Blossom, by 

 Buckingham,* in calf to Crown Prince, won the 

 first prize at the Windsor Royal, and in Octo- 

 ber following she gave birth to a white bull 

 calf that afterward carried all before him at 

 the National and Northern county shows. In 

 honor of his mother's victory at the Eoyal he 

 was dubbed Windsor. The calf began his win- 

 nings at Sheffield the following summer. That 

 same year another of this family, Rose Blossom, 

 gained first as a two-year-old at the Royal. 



Windsor made ten shows and won nine first 

 prizes, being the "bull card" of the Warlaby 

 exhibit from 1852 to 1855. He was spoken of 

 as "the Comet of modern times. A very sym- 

 metrical animal, of extraordinary length, with 

 a good masculine head and horn, a well-formed 

 neck, a very deep and prominent breast, and 

 well-covered, obliquely-laid shoulders; his back 

 was admirably formed firm and level and 

 his ribs were finely arched up to the shoulders, 

 forming a cylindrical shape throughout; his 



*Pium Blossom, according to Carr, was "a level, lengthy, short-legged 

 cow of great substance. She had abundance of hair, of a rich purple roan, 

 a very sweet head and high-bred appearance. While still but a slip of a 

 heifer (for Plum Blossom was no hot-house nursjing, but a wilding of the 

 fields from her birth) Mr. Eastwood, visiting Warlaby with the late Mr. 

 Booth, had the sagacity to foresee the perfection to which she would ma- 

 ture. He made tempting overtures to compass her transfer to Towneley, 

 which he flattered himself the latter did not seem disinclined to entertain; 

 but on reviving the subject after dinner Mr. Booth dashed his hopes by in- 

 timating that he could not allow him to ' put in his thumb and pull out this 

 plum.' " 



