Nightingale
Classification:
9 W-GYR[ Poeticus ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

b 1851 d 1936

Appleshaw, Hampshire, England; Dinton, Wiltshire

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

photo of Rev. George Herbert Engleheart via the Wiltshire OPC Project

Rev. G.H. Engleheart
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1914
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1914.AM(e) 1914; 
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.

Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Nightingale
Comments

Fl. rounded, 80 mm wide; perianth segments greenish white, of thick substance, glistening, deeply overlapping; corona light orange-yellow, with yellowish green at base and a narrow band of vivid red at rim.

A description according to Cartwright and Goodwin 1914 catalog: “Not a large flower, but extremely valuable on account of its earliness. Eye of ‘Horace’ type, but bolder and more striking. Glistening white segments, very thick and of extraordinary roundness and symmetry. They are so overlapping that the alternate segments meet behind. A first-class exhibition flower. Height 16in.

Origin of Name

Named after the sweet singing bird, the Nightingale.

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

NightingaleNightingale, 9 W-GYR, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1914
Photo #47773 Cartwright and Goodwin, EnglandNightingaleNightingale, 9 W-GYR, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1914
Photo #368 ADS Photo, USA