Mrs. Margaret Erskine
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

M. van Waveren and Sons

M. van Waveren and Sons

Photo of G. H. van Waveren
From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

M. van Waveren and Sons
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1942
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 de Jager’s 1955 catalog: “a very fine early garden variety, producing a beautiful large yellow with broad overlapping perianth, large expanding yellow crown.”

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