Crocus
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Percival D. Williams, b 1865 d 1935

St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Percival D. Williams, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1927
Awards:
This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence 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 1948. FCC Haarlem 1948; This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1947. *AM(g) 1947; This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1936. FCC(e) 1936; 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 1936. AM Haarlem 1936; 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 1935. AM(e) 1935;
Special Class:
ADS Historics
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
10 times as seed, 47 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments broadly or very broadly ovate, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, vivid yellow spreading or somewhat inflexed, concave or with margins incurling at apex, overlapping half; inner segments more narrowly ovate, inflexed with margins slightly wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, slightly brighter in tone than the perianth, with mouth ribbed and widely expanded, rim flanged, notched and crenate.

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Historic Image: RHS Yearbook, EnglandCrocusCrocus, 2 Y-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927, England 
Historic Image: P. de Jager and Sons, the NetherlandsCrocusCrocus, 2 Y-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927, England 
Historic Image: Albert F. Calvert, EnglandCrocusCrocus, 2 Y-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927, England 
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