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Classification:
2 W-YYO[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

David S. Bell

b 1905 d 1987

Christchurch, New Zealand; Templeton

David S. Bell
, South Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 1957
Awards:

PC(e) Award

This plant earned the Certificate of Preliminary Commendation (PC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to a new plant of promise for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1970.PC(e) 1970; 
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: 
Fairy Mother 2 W-O 
George Lewis, New Zealand
Year Registered: 1955
Fairy Mother
Pollen Parent: 
Green Island 2 W-GWY 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Gracious x Seraglio
Green Island
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for City Lights
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as pollen
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of City Lights
Comments

Perianth segments rounded, pure white, smooth and of strong substance; corona bowl-shaped, brilliant greenish yellow, with a broad band of strong orange at rim.

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City LightsCity Lights, 2 W-YYO, David S. Bell, New Zealand, 1957
Photo #49170 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandCity lightsCity Lights, 2 W-YYO, David S. Bell, New Zealand, 1957
Photo #10213 Gordon Coombes, New ZealandCity lightsCity Lights, 2 W-YYO, David S. Bell, New Zealand, 1957
Photo #4618 Wells Knierim, USA