Saint Hilda
Classification:
1 W-YWW[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

Robert O. Backhouse

b 1854 d 1940

Hereford, Herefordshire, England

Robert O. Backhouse
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1924
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.

Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, spreading, overlapping one-third; the inner segments narrower, a little inflexed, slightly twisted, somewhat creased; corona widely expanded, creamy white, shading to primrose yellow at base, mouth heavily ribbed, with rim crenate.

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Saint HildaSaint Hilda, 1 W-YWW, Robert O. Backhouse, England, 1924
Photo #43541 Albert F. Calvert, England