Socrates
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Classification:
9 W-YYR[ Poeticus ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Hybridizer:

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

b 1851 d 1936

Appleshaw, Hampshire, England; Dinton, Wiltshire

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

photo of Rev. George Herbert Engleheart via the Wiltshire OPC Project

Rev. G.H. Engleheart
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1890
Awards:

AM Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1911.AM 1911; 
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.

Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed, 3 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 61 mm wide; perianth segments pure white, overlapping two-thirds; corona almost disc-shaped, lemon, with a broad band of deep scarlet at rim, with the rim dentate.

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SocratesSocrates, 9 W-YYR, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1890
Photo #23034 Unknown Historic Source