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Duke of Rosedale 12th led forth, we wander across the park until 

 we come to the group of cows and heifers standing under the trees 

 for shade ; it is only two years ago since a draft of thirty con- 

 siderably reduced their ranks, and they have not as yet had time to 

 replace them. The Bracelets are the most numerous, and the 

 Forty-third, very lengthy, of a beautiful dark red, is one of the 

 best looking; and the Thirty-first, a capital milker, was th? result 

 of sending the Twenty-fourth to visit the Duke of Manchester's 

 Duke of Underley 3rd 38196. The Wild Eyes are of the Lady 

 Worcester, and Lady Bright Eyes varieties, both obtained at 

 Dunmore. Lady Worcester 22nd, is the only female left of her 

 branch, all the rest having been disposed of two yeais ago; Lady 

 Bright Eyes 5th, a red and little white, inheriting the Royal 

 Butterfly 3rd cross, is exceedingly handsome, and vies with Waterloo 

 Bienvenue, a very graceful daughter of Duke of Connaught, well 

 covered over her crops, with excellent ribs, lengthy hind quarters, 

 and a soft velvet like touch, in competing for the honours of the 

 park. Lady Oxford 9th, a square deep framed daughter of Mr. D. 

 Macintosh's 2660 guinea Baroness Oxford 5th, was sent to Preston 

 Hall as one of the Havering Park contingent, and remained with 

 410gs. on her head, and it is sorrowful to add that so good a heifer 

 utterly declines to breed. 



Wateringbury, has long been a household word amongst Bates 

 breeders, and it is a quarter of a century since the late Mr. Frederick 

 Leney began breeding in the famous cherry orchards around his 

 residence at Orpines, a few minutes' walk from the station at 

 Wateringbury. The two Choruses, and Twin Duchesses, daughters 

 of Sir Charles Knightley's Charming, were the first important 

 female purchases, and the fame of the Charmers has been great 

 ever since ; at the present day, when they are but represented at 

 their old home by two sisters, and one of their heifers, it is to their 

 descendants in the hands of Mr. H. J. Sheldon, that many of his 

 Dukes of Charm in gland, so popular at the Bingley Hall sales, are 

 descended. Lord Oxford 2nd 20215, imported from America, and 

 one of the four illustrious brothers, was long used by Mr. Leney, 



