Better Half
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Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Year of first flowering:
1940
Hybridizer:

Alister Clark

b 1864 d 1949

Bulla, Victoria, Australia. Prop. Glenara Daffodils; Alister Clark was a renown Victorian rose breeder of yesteryear, but was also a keen breeder of daffodils. In 1897 Clark joined a syndicate, which bought the stock of daffodil bulbs bred by Rev. G. H. Engleheart. He also bought half the stock of a bulb collection made by English Shakespearean actor, George Titheradge, who was responsible for importing so many early daffodils into Australia.

Alister Clark

Alister Clark, Glenara, Bulla, Victroria, Australia

Alister Clark
, Victoria, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1958
Registrant:

Ron Hyde

Ron Hyde
, New Zealand
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.

Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
4 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. small; corona of near Division 1 proportions, buff pink.

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