Torchdance
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Michael Percival Williams

b 1903 d 1963

St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Michael Percival Williams
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1954
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.

Descendants:
None
Comments

A description according to the 1954 Swains of Bristol catalog: “Best described as a mid-season ‘Golden Torch’, and so very good indeed. Actually the perianth segments are fractionally broader and less pointed, the crown very slightly shorter and more expanded, and the color a little deeper and richer.”

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