Gay Song
Classification:
4 W-W[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, 1968
Registrant:

Helen K. (Nell) Richardson

Helen K. (Nell) Richardson
, Ireland
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Seed Parent: 
Gay Time 4 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Falaise x Limerick
Gay Time
Pollen Parent: 
Brussels 1 W-W 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1945
Ledbury x Broughshane
Brussels
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
7 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. large; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls, broadly ovate, blunt or truncate, slightly mucronate, pure white, inflexed, overlapping half or more; the inner whorls more strongly inflexed, with margins wavy or incurled; corona segments short, clustered among petaloid segments at center, white, faintly touched with lemon yellow. Scented.

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Gay SongGay Song, 4 W-W, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1968
Photo #46161 Quality Daffodils, EnglandGay songGay Song, 4 W-W, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1968
Photo #9662 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandGay songGay Song, 4 W-W, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1968
Photo #4713 Wells Knierim, USAGay songGay Song, 4 W-W, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1968
Photo #3310 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA