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Classification:
4 Y-O[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse

b 1857 d 1921

Hereford, Herefordshire, England

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, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1921
Awards:

FCFA Haarlem Award

This plant earned the First Class Forcing Award (FCFA).

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1938.FCFA Haarlem 1938; 

FA Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Forcing Award (FA).

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1936.FA Haarlem 1936; 

AM Haarlem 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 Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1927.AM Haarlem 1927; 
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.

Chromosomes:
21
Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth and other petaloid segments in many whorls, broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, overlapping one-third; the outer whorls more or less spreading, plane; the inner whorls clustered at center, inflexed, with margins incurled; corona segments half the length of the petaloid segments and interspersed among them, bright orange, frilled.

Synonyms:

'Marvel'

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Photo #46864 Heath Family Archives, USATexasTexas, 4 Y-O, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #27282 P. de Jager and Sons, the Netherlands