Sunlit Hours
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1952
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1963
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: 
Saint Issey 2 Y-Y 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Saint Issey
Pollen Parent: 
Galway 2 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1943
Royalist ? x Crocus ?
Galway
Seedling Number:
N115/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 121 mm wide, bright yellow. Resembles a larger and paler-flowered ‘Saint Issey’ with a longer corona.

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Sunlit hoursSunlit Hours, 2 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #4976 Wells Knierim, USA