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

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, 1962
Registrant:

Helen K. (Nell) Richardson

Helen K. (Nell) Richardson
, Ireland
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 1966.PC(e) 1966; 
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: 
Infatuation 2 W-YYP 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1954
Glenshane x Waterville
Infatuation
Pollen Parent: 
Debutante 2 W-P 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1956
Wild Rose x Rose Caprice
Debutante
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as seed, 13 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments very broadly ovate or almost triangular in appearance, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, spreading, a little concave, with margins incurling at apex, smooth, regular, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, not noticeably mucronate, a little inflexed; corona bowl-shaped, smooth, coral pink, with a well-defined zone of green at base, mouth widely expanded, loosely frilled, occasionally split and overlapping, with rim somewhat flanged and minutely dentate.

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Fair ProspectFair Prospect, 2 W-GPP, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1962
Photo #59102 Roger Parsons, EnglandFair prospectFair Prospect, 2 W-GPP, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1962
Photo #22461 Heath Family Archives, USAFair prospectFair Prospect, 2 W-GPP, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1962
Photo #5957 George Tarry, England