Agheila
Classification:
3 W-?[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, before 1945
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.

Seed Parent: 
Coronach 3 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Coronach
Pollen Parent: 
Forfar 3 W-O 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1930
(Beacon x Fortune) x Sunstar
Forfar
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Resembles a much later-flowered ‘Matapan’.

Origin of Name

Part of Lionel Richardson’s ‘World War II Battles Series’. Named after El Agheila, of the Battle of Gazala, which was part of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

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