Divertimento
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Classification:
7 W-P[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1967
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: 
2W-P seedling (
Wild Rose 2 W-P 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1936
Mitylene x Evening
Wild Rose
x
Radiation 2 W-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1954
White Sentinel x Mrs. R.O. Backhouse
Radiation
)
Pollen Parent: 
N. jonquilla Division 13 Species
Section: Jonquilla
N. jonquilla
Seedling Number:
V74/1
Chromosomes:
21
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 67 mm wide; perianth segments ivory white; corona pale pink. Resembles a shorter and more floriferous ‘Chérie’ with the corona of a richer tone.

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DivertimentoDivertimento, 7 W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1967
Photo #52448 Heath Family Archives, USADivertimentoDivertimento, 7 W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1967
Photo #52447 Heath Family Archives, USADivertimentoDivertimento, 7 W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1967
Photo #52446 Heath Family Archives, USA