Cicely
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson

b 1868 d 1953

East Keal, Lincolnshire, England; Shovell, Somerset; Presteigne, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales

Alexander (Alec) M. WilsonAlexander (Alec) M. Wilson
, Wales, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1927
Awards:

*AM(g) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1936.*AM(g) 1936; 

*AM(g) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1930.*AM(g) 1930; 
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: 
Fleetwing 2 W-Y 
John Charles Williams, England
Year Registered: 1907
Fleetwing
Pollen Parent: 
Mrs. Robert Sydenham 1 W-W 
de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1906
Madame de Graaff x seedling~
Mrs. Robert Sydenham
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. deep buffy apricot yellow, smooth; corona darker in tone than the perianth.

According to The American Horticultural Society’s 1937 issue of the The American Daffodil Year Book, Guy L. Wilson’s article “Some Modern Daffodils for Garden Decoration” states: “Cicely, Award of Merit, Wisley Trials, is a very early flower of medium size, perfect form and quality, with clear cut white perianth, and very pale lemon crown; a free bloomer and good doer.”

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CicelyCicely, 2 W-W, Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson, Wales, 1927
Photo #43439 Albert F. Calvert, England