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

William Backhouse

b 1807 d 1869

Wolsingham, Durham, England

William Backhouse
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1869
Awards:

FCC Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

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

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1866.FCC 1866; 
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments ovate to narrowly ovate or oblong, blunt, not prominently mucronate, spreading or somewhat inflexed, with margins sometimes wavy or sometimes recurved at base, overlapping at base only; corona cylindrical or somewhat funnel-shaped, closely ribbed, opening canary yellow with a tinge of orange towards mouth, becoming pure white, mouth straight, lightly frilled.’ Absorbed’ ‘Flora MacDonald’.

Synonyms:

'Flora MacDonald'

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Photo #60056 Vee Kozma, USADuchess of WestminsterDuchess of Westminster, 2 W-W, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #47246 Drew Mc Farland, USADuchess of WestminsterDuchess of Westminster, 2 W-W, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #47245 Drew Mc Farland, USADuchess of WestminsterDuchess of Westminster, 2 W-W, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #47244 Drew Mc Farland, USADuchess of westminsterDuchess of Westminster, 2 W-W, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #18399 Barr Catalog, England