Siddington
Classification:
3 Y-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

William Backhouse

b 1807 d 1869

Wolsingham, Durham, England

William Backhouse
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1869
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

Fls often 2 per stem; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, light yellow, spreading or a little inflexed, with margins slightly wavy or incurled, overlapping a quarter; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, more strongly inflexed, twisted and with margins often deeply incurled; corona broad cup-shaped, ribbed, darker in tone than the perianth, with a broad band of reddish orange at rim, lightly frilled, with rim crenate.

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SiddingtonSiddington, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #25596 Barr Catalog, England