Saint Issey
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Percival D. Williams

b 1865 d 1935

St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Percival D. Williams

From 1914 RHS Daffodil Yearbook

Percival D. Williams
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1927
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 1938.AM(e) 1938; 
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.

Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed, 4 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt or truncate, prominently mucronate, buttercup yellow, spreading, overlapping half; the inner segments inflexed at base, recurved above, somewhat twisted or with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, lightly angled, slightly darker in tone than the perianth segments, with mouth flared, rim notched and crenate,

Was classified as Division 1 until 1936.

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

Saint isseySaint Issey, 2 Y-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #11195 Kirby Fong, USASaint isseySaint Issey, 2 Y-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #416 ADS Photo, USA