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with Captain Balco (12546), tlie sire of her calves 

 Rose of Athelstane and Sir James the Rose; and 

 Water Lily shares her canvas honours with Snip 

 the Clydesdale mare who gained the Royal Eng- 

 lish prize at Carlisle. The silver medals are not 

 to be sought for in a cloud of cases, but they have all 

 been melted up, and form a tree, with the old down- 

 horn family group at its base, and twenty-eight gold 

 medals hanging like the apples of the Hesperides 

 from its boughs. 



The Provost (4846), from a daughter of Colonel 

 Cradock^s old Cherry, and Melrose by Gainford 

 (2044), one of her sons, first attracted Mr. Douglas 

 at the Highland Society^s Show at Edinburgh in 

 1842, and his improved shorthorn impressions date 

 from that day. Still, it was not until 1846, when 

 the Royal Society met at Newcastle, that he made 

 any extensive purchases. Bellevillp (6778) was then 

 all the rage, and it was with two yearling heifers by 

 him that he won the second and third prizes in their 

 class at Aberdeen, the following summer. In that 

 year he also bought Florence of the Booth's Fare- 

 well tribe, and Lalla Rookh at Mr. Carruthers of 

 Dormont's sale, the former of which he parted with 

 to Mr. Bolden, senior. His early prize winnings 

 were not confined to females, as;^ in 1848, when his 

 name was fairly established in Scotland, he not only 

 got the second cow prize at the Royal Irish, but won 

 with his Red Rover in the yearling-bull class, beating 

 the Hon. Mr. Nugent's celebrated Bamboo. 



