Cyclades
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Classification:
6 Y-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Douglas Blanchard

b 1887 d 1968

Blandford, Dorset, England. In partnership from 1954 with J.W.Blanchard

Douglas Blanchard
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1948
Awards:

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 1960.AM Haarlem 1960; 
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: 
Goldbeater 1 Y-Y 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1923
Maximus x 1 Y-Y seedling~
Goldbeater
Pollen Parent: 
N. cyclamineus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. cyclamineus
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. bright yellow; perianth segments narrowly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, reflexed, with margins inward folding or twisted, overlapping a quarter; corona cylindrical, smooth, with rim deeply and irregularly notched, loosely and widely flanged.

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CycladesCyclades, 6 Y-Y, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1948
Photo #31095 RHS Yearbook, EnglandCycladesCyclades, 6 Y-Y, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1948
Photo #6183 Willis H. Wheeler, USA