Milk and Cream
Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

P. van Deursen

Established 1887. Sassenheim, Holland; Heemskerk

P. van Deursen
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1943
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 1943.AM Haarlem 1943; 
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

A description according to the 1955 issue of the J. Heemskerk catalog: “large white perianth with broad crown of a very distinct amber yellow. Very refined and quite different from all other color combinations. Of our origination.”

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Milk and creamMilk and Cream, 2 W-Y, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1943
Photo #30424 Heemskerk Catalog, the Netherlands