Boscobel
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1949
Hybridizer:

C. Reginald Wootton

b 1897 d 1970

Bloxwich, Staffordshire, England

C. Reginald Wootton
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1960
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1959.AM(e) 1959; 
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: 
Niphetos 2 W-W 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Niphetos
Pollen Parent: 
Zero 2 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1935
White Frost x Naxos
Zero
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 100 mm wide; perianth segments ovate, acute, very slightly mucronate, overlapping half; the inner segments a little narrower; corona opening creamy white, quickly becoming white, with mouth ribbed and expanded, rim dentate and slightly flanged. Resembles an earlier-flowered ‘Zero’ with a shorter corona.

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BoscobelBoscobel, 2 W-W, C. Reginald Wootton, England, 1960
Photo #31093 RHS Yearbook, England