86 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



"Golden Pippin, lot 9, and Clarissa, lot 17, were evidently from 

 one tribe (Beauty or Punch tribe) ; Mr. Colling got it from Mr. G. 

 Best, of Manfield, and it traces further back than is stated in the 

 catalogue. Beauty, who was from the cow that bred Punch (531), 

 took a first premium at Darlington ; her excellence brought Punch 

 (531), a yellow red bull, into notice. Punch was the sire of the dam 

 of Charles Ceiling's Old Daisy, whose granddaughter, Lily, was the 

 highest priced cow at the Ketton sale. Also of Ben {70), and Twin 

 Brother to Ben (660), both used by Mr. Booth. Mr. Robert Colling 

 said that Ben had the best blood, and he begot the dam of Red Rose, 

 lot i, and Old Wildair, own sister to the celebrated bull Phenomenon 

 (491), used by Sir H. Vane Tempest, and whom Mr. Parrington con- 

 sidered a finer bull than Comet (155). This line of blood is happily 

 yet preserved. Mr. Whitaker bred Nonsuch and others from Golden 

 Pippin ; the family then went to Mr. Maynard, from whom it has 

 passed by various changes, under the name of Nonsuch, to the pres- 

 ent possessor, Mr. Adkins, of Milcote. 



" There is no record from whence the Red Rose* tribe, lot i, came. 

 She was own sister to the American Cow, the first female named in 

 the now fashionable Cambridge Rose line. It is said that the American 

 Cow got her name from going out to America early in the century. f 

 She was bred by R. Colling, and sold by him when a yearling to go to 

 America. When the stock of Red Rose and Moss Rose became of 

 such note she was brought back by Mr. Hustler to England, and 

 produced at Acklam in 1811, Red Rose, by Yarborough (705), for 

 which Mr. Hustler refused 400 guineas, and which Mr. Bates bought 

 in 1819. At the time of the sale Red Rose, then seventeen years old, 

 had been a magnificent cow, but was very patchy; she had large 

 cushions of fat on her rumps, whilst her fore quarters were light. 

 Moss Rose, lot 2, her daughter by her own sire, was a very good cow, 

 a handsome roan, very even, wide and massive, of fine symmetry and 

 quality, but by some thought to be rather small. Red Rose had been 

 a regular and excellent breeder, more especially of bulls, among 

 which were Miner .(441), used by Lord Strathmore and Mr. Jobling, 

 with whom he got Wellington (683), Midas (435), lot 56, a great, fine 

 bull, with hind quarters super-excellent, Baronet (62), lot 60, and 

 Pilot (496), lot 65, also the granddam of Lord Althorpe's Regent 

 (544), lot 61. Of these bulls, Midas (435), had been let to Mr. 

 Robertson, Ladykirk, for three years at 300 gs., to Mr. Arbuthnot for 



* Calved in 1801, English Herd Book, Vol. i, p. 456. L. F. A. 

 t See page 54, ante.L. F. A. 



