William Wilks
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

de Graaff Bros.

de Graaff Bros.

Photo: Simon Adriaan de Graaff
From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

de Graaff Bros.
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1885
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

Perianth segments very broadly ovate or somewhat roundish, mucronate, primrose yellow, spreading, with margins nicked, with midrib showing, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments only a little narrower, slightly inflexed; corona cylindrical or somewhat funnel-shaped, broad, ribbed, orange-yellow, mouth lobed and flared, rim crenate.

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William wilksWilliam Wilks, 2 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1885
Photo #16744 Gertrude Hartland, Ireland