Thistle Dew
Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1948
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: 
Bodilly 2 W-Y 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1925
Bodilly
Pollen Parent: 
Gold Crown 2 W-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1965
Nevis x Fortune
Gold Crown
Seedling Number:
J3/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 115 mm wide; perianth segments pure white, overlapping; corona somewhat flared, clear lemon yellow.

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Thistle dewThistle Dew, 2 W-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #6297 Willis H. Wheeler, USA