Rose of May
Classification:
4 W-W[ Double ]
Season:
Very Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1950
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 1957.AM(e) 1957; 

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 1950.AM Haarlem 1950; 
Special Classes:
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.

, ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

, The Daffodil Society Intermediates
Seed Parent: 
(
Cushendall 3 W-GWW 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1931
Emerald Eye x Dactyl
Cushendall
x
Cantabile 9 W-GYR 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1932
Dactyl x Raeburn
Cantabile
)
Pollen Parent: 
Smyrna 9 W-GOO 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1926
James Hogg x Ace of Diamonds
Smyrna
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 65 mm wide, pale creamy white; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls, very broad, rounded or a little truncate at apex, only very slightly mucronate, somewhat irregular, overlapping half or more; the outer whorl spreading or a little inflexed, plane; inner whorls very little shorter, successively more strongly inflexed, with margins incurved, often folded at midrib; the center segments strongly inflexed, with margins tightly incurled. Scented.

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Rose of MayRose of May, 4 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1950
Photo #47218 Ian Tyler, EnglandRose of MayRose of May, 4 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1950
Photo #46204 Quality Daffodils, EnglandRose of MayRose of May, 4 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1950
Photo #41344 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USARose of MayRose of May, 4 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1950
Photo #31127 RHS Yearbook, EnglandRose of mayRose of May, 4 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1950
Photo #26075 Dunlop Catalog, Northern Ireland