Touchstone
Classification:
3 W-OOR[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Ernest M. Crosfield

d 1925

Raised daffodils 1898-1915. Frodsham, Cheshire, England; Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales; Cossington, Somerset, England; Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales

Ernest M. Crosfield
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1913
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.

Seed Parent: 
Unknown
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments rounded at apex, ivory white, overlapping; corona small, shallow, pale orange, shading to orange-red at rim. Tall

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TouchstoneTouchstone, 3 W-OOR, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1913
Photo #31161 RHS Yearbook, England