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Sandringham. Still another family remains to be mentioned, and 

 that is one of note, viz : the Flowers, of Aylesby fame, the best of 

 the tribe in the eyes of Bates breeders being found at Kimbolton, as 

 instead of the Booth crosses so familiar in the Flower pedigree, are 

 found Mr. Bates' 3rd Duke of Northumberland 3647, Sir C. Tempest's 

 Broughton Hero 6811, and Col. Pennant's Bellerophon 33132, and 

 naturally since coming into the present owner's possession, they 

 have been crossed with highly bred Bates bulls. 



In the buildings, Oxford Annie, the red calf out of Oxford 

 Helene, by Mr. Foster's Oxford bull, is lengthy and straight, but 

 neither her sire Oxford Duke of Killhow 6th 50130 nor Oxford 

 de Vere 6th 51 810, the result of sending Oxford Alice to Mr. Aylmer's 

 Sir Simeon, could be properly seen, as in the herdsman's absence they 

 were unable to be brought forth. In the paddock immediately 

 adjoining the yard we are much taken with Sequoiah 3rd, a handsome 

 white of large scale, and in her company is a good Flower cow with 

 a Booth cross. Through the gate we have a Lady Montagu the 

 name which here denotes Lady Worcesters Formosa 2nd, the 

 older of the two Flower sisters, is possessed of nice character, and 

 a well formed udder, and Silentia 9th, out of the retained Surmise 

 cow, is very lengthy like the dam, and full of hair. Amongst the 

 cows in " profit," Mercia 21st, Queen of the Yale 3rd, Patience, 

 and White Lady 3rd, are the best quartette, and of the sisters, 

 Baroness Blanche 2nd and Baroness Blanche 3rd, the younger seems 

 the more preferable. 



Shorthorns were bred many years at Buckden by the late 

 Col. Linton, and Mr. John Linton now musters a herd of forty 

 head, descended from the Ellington, Lillingstone Dayrell, and 

 Waresley herds. Mr. Linton began breeding in 1878 by the 

 purchase of the twins, Waterloo 1st and "Waterloo 2nd, at 

 Mr. Ladds' sale ; they were sired by a Gazelle bull, of Mr. Bowly's 

 breeding, from a daughter of an Aylesby bred cow, and his present 

 Waterloos are descended from the Ellington purchases. Quite a 

 number of the herd trace to Mr. Booth's Farewell, through the 



