General MacArthur
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Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Very Early
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Oregon Bulb Farms

Oregon Bulb Farms
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, before 1942
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:
2 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Resembles a shorter ‘Thoughtful’ with more flowers per stem.

According to Jan deGraaff’s Record book of the 1951 descriptions of flowers then being grown at Oregon Bulb Farm: “4 inch diameter; perianth is pale ochre yellow while the trim frilled trumpet (almost as long as the petals) is lemon yellow; as flower develops a pink flush slowly develops inside the trumpet; stiff stemmed;”

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