Lady Kesteven
Classification:
3 W-O[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse

b 1857 d 1921

Hereford, Herefordshire, England

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, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1921
Awards:

AM Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1931.AM Haarlem 1931; 
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.

Seed Parent: 
Hades 2 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Hades
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Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
6 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt or slightly truncate, slightly mucronate, spreading, somewhat creased, overlapping one-third; the inner segments narrower, a little inflexed, very slightly twisted; corona almost disc-shaped, irregularly ribbed, deep orange, frilled.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

Lady KestevenLady Kesteven, 3 W-O, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #59201 Susie Lendermon Garden club of Virginia, USALady KestevenLady Kesteven, 3 W-O, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #31287 RHS Yearbook, EnglandLady kestevenLady Kesteven, 3 W-O, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #18178 Unknown Historic Source