Jean Flagler Matthews
Classification:
3 W-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Adrian Frylink

Adrian Frylink
, New York, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1958
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.

Descendants:
None
Comments

Corona deep yellow, with a broad band of reddish orange at rim.

Origin of Name

Named after enthusiastic daffodil grower Jean Flager Matthews of Brookside, Rye, New York who hired an esteemed architect Adrian Frylink, son of a Dutch bulb family and recognized country-wide to design her daffodil garden.  Mrs. Matthews was a gracious hostess, who loved to show her daffodils, entertaining large groups for lunch in a big tent, preceding a conducted tour. Brookside ceased to exist soon after the death of Mrs. Matthews.

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