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late owner of this superb cow had the only English bred Cambridge 

 Roses outside of the Audley End herd, and the prices realized at 

 their two sales show the appreciation in which they are held. Heel 

 Roses llth, and 12th, two reds, are half sisters, by Oxford Duke 

 45297, one of the pure Lady of Oxfords, exported to America by 

 Mr. R. Gibson, and grand-daughters of Mr. Lynn's original cow, 

 a pair of nice breeding young cows, they have done their duty by 

 each having produced a brace of live calves ; the Twelfth is our 

 favourite of to day, but the Eleventh having suffered from a recent 

 attack of jaundice, has not yet recovered her bloom ; certainly of 

 this group of Roses it is Thorndale Rose 7th, the highest priced 

 heifer at Audley End, where she was sold for l,000gs., to whom the 

 diploma of merit is awarded, a truly beautiful type of the Thorndale 

 Roses, she is as purely bred as she is good looking, with immense 

 substance, and taking style, although somewhat disfigured by a lump 

 on her knee, which no doubt had a deterrent effect on buyers at 

 Hindlip, but she is now in excellent health and appears none the 

 woisc3 for it. It is worth recording how Mr. Lynn obtained 

 possession of his second branch of Cambridge Roses at the Hindlip 

 sale. Mr. Lynn and his neighbours Messrs. J. H. Casswell and A. 

 Deans attended the great Hindlip sale, and Thorndale Rose 7th ; 

 jointly purchased by them, was sent to Lord Underley Barrington, 

 a red bull calf was the result, and eventually it was agreed that on 

 the return of Messrs. Casswell and Deans, from the Osgodby sale, a 

 private auction should be held at Stroxton, it was a " small company, 

 but a good sale." Both cow and calf were after animated bidding 

 retained on the homestead by Mr. Lynn, at 81gs., and 60gs., 

 respectively. In ^he adjoining paddock a capital red bull calf out 

 of Red Rose 10th, does credit to his sire Lord LTnderley Barrington. 



Advancing further, Queen of Oxford, a light red, is of a very 

 favourite family of Mr. Lynn's, known as the Queens from Clifton 

 Pastures, and for the future as Queens of Stroxton ; she is half 

 sister to the two young Red Rose cows and even more related as her 

 dam was by the home bred Cambridge Duke 8th, indeed Cambridge 

 Duke sires have been introduced into both the Lady Spencers and 



