King of Spain
Classification:
5 Y-Y[ Triandrus ]
Season:
Spring
Selected by:

Peter Barr

b 1826, crd 1890, d 1909.
Co-founder 1860 of Barr & Sugden;
founder 1882 of Barr & Son, later (1886) Barr & Sons.
Covent Garden, London, England.
Nurseries at Tooting, London, 1882-1888;
Long Ditton, Surrey, 1889-1910;
Taplow, Buckinghamshire, 1911-1955;
also at Gulval, Cornwall.
Barr & Sons succeeded 1956 by Wallace & Barr

Peter Barr

From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

Peter Barr
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1898
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Selection of: 
N. x taitii Division 13 Species
Section: Intersectional Hybrid
N. pseudonarcissus and N. triandrus subsp. pallidulus
N. x taitii
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. flange on trumpet; Resembles ‘Queen of Spain’ but with the corona mouth expanded.

Selection by Peter Barr (c.1898) from wild-collected material from Spain. A name that cannot be applied with any certainty to any one of several clones of N. x johnstonii, now known as N. x taitii.

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