Sir Galahad
Classification:
3 W-Y[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
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 1910
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

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, pure white, spreading, overlapping half; the inner segments a little inflexed; corona bowl-shaped, broad, loosely ribbed, soft primrose yellow, frilled.

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Sir galahadSir Galahad, 3 W-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1910
Photo #23032 Unknown Historic Source