Scarlet Elegance
Classification:
2 Y-YRR[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 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 1938
Awards:

FA Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Forcing Award (FA).

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1939.FA Haarlem 1939; 
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.

Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 84 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate in outline, blunt or slightly truncate, bright lemon yellow, with white mucro, spreading, with margins incurling, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, angled at shoulder, with margins wavy; corona cup-shaped, deep red, paling to yellow at base, mouth straight and lightly frilled. Resembles a more intensely colored ‘Killigrew’

Synonyms:

'Brilliant Star#', 'Jupiter##', 'Scarlet Elegans', 'Star of the East#', 'Star of the West'

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

Scarlet EleganceScarlet Elegance, 2 Y-YRR, Percival D. Williams, England, 1938
Photo #47115 Drew Mc Farland, USAScarlet eleganceScarlet Elegance, 2 Y-YRR, Percival D. Williams, England, 1938
Photo #7844 Ian Tyler, England