White Duchess
Classification:
11b W-YYW[ Split-Cupped Papillon ]
Season:
Spring
Year of first flowering:
1942
Hybridizer:

J.W.A. Lefeber

Established 1910. Lisse, Holland; Noordwijkerhout

J.W.A. Lefeber
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, 1960
Awards:

AM Haarlem 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 Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1937.AM Haarlem 1937; 
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

Fl. 75 mm wide; corona segments with a longitudinal band of lemon yellow at midrib and white at margins.

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