Glory of Leiden
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Classification:
1 Y-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
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 1887
Awards:

FCC Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1887.FCC 1887; 
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: 
(
Emperor 1 Y-Y 
William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
N. bicolor x N. pseudonarcissus
Emperor
x unknown )
Pollen Parent: 
Division 1 W-W Seedling
Pedigree Chart:
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Used as parent:
4 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Flower very large, yellow; perianth segments ovate, blunt, a little inflexed, with margins sometimes incurling, overlapping a quarter to one-third; the inner segments somewhat twisted; corona cylindrical, smooth, darker in tone than the perianth, with mouth flared and a little frilled, rim notched and shallowly and unevenly crenate. Resembles a large-flowered ‘Emperor’ of slightly lighter color.

As published in Cartwright & Goodwin’s 1914 catalog: “trumpet rich yellow, perianth streaky yellow”

It is sometimes spelled as ‘Glory of Leyden’.

The RHS has as the seed parent ‘Emperor’ hybrid or N. abscissus hence the two entries in DaffSeek.

Origin of Name

Named after the area Leyden, the Netherlands, which is where the hybridizer, Mr. de Graaff and sons, lived.

Synonyms:

'Giant Ajax', 'Glory of Leyden'

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

Glory of LeidenGlory of Leiden, 1 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1887
Photo #60105 Vee Kozma, USAGlory of LeidenGlory of Leiden, 1 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1887
Photo #32406 Gertrude Hartland, IrelandGlory of LeidenGlory of Leiden, 1 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1887
Photo #31166 RHS Yearbook, England