Viscountess Falmouth
Classification:
5 W-W[ Triandrus ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

b 1851 d 1936

Appleshaw, Hampshire, England; Dinton, Wiltshire

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

photo of Rev. George Herbert Engleheart via the Wiltshire OPC Project

Rev. G.H. Engleheart
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1903
Awards:

AM Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1903.AM 1903; 
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

A description according to The Gardners’ Chronicle, April 25, 1903:  A very distinct variety, intermediate between ‘Maggie May’ and some of the large Leedsii kinds, but the cup and crown is distinctly prolonged and cylindrical. The painted segments are somewhat a weakly feature of the variety. 

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Viscountess FalmouthViscountess Falmouth, 5 W-W, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1903
Photo #34006 Worthington George Smith, England