Searchlight
Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

George H. Johnstone

b 1882 d 1960

Grampound Road, Cornwall, England

George H. Johnstone
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1959
Awards:

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 1929.AM Haarlem 1929; 
Special Class:
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.

Seed Parent: 
Zero 2 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1935
White Frost x Naxos
Zero
Pollen Parent: 
(
Silver Coin 3 W-W 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1935
x N. poeticus var. hellenicus
Silver Coin
x
Beersheba 1 W-W 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1923
White Knight x seedling~
Beersheba
)
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 108 mm wide.

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