Fairy King
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Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson

b 1868 d 1953

East Keal, Lincolnshire, England; Shovell, Somerset; Presteigne, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales

Alexander (Alec) M. WilsonAlexander (Alec) M. Wilson
, Wales, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1933
Awards:

AM(e) Award

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 1936.AM(e) 1936; 
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.

Seed Parent: 
(
Gulliver 3 Y-YYO 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Gulliver
x unknown )
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as seed, 4 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. small; perianth segments broadly ovate, prominently mucronate, golden yellow, spreading, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, a little inflexed, shouldered at base; corona short funnel-shaped, glowing scarlet-orange, mouth straight, more or less even, with rim shallowly notched.

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Fairy kingFairy King, 2 Y-O, Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson, Wales, 1933
Photo #28529 Guy L. Wilson Catalog, Northern Ireland