Fairy Tale
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Classification:
3 W-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1952
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 1955.AM(e) 1955; 
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: 
Portrush 3 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1947
Silver Coin x Crimson Braid
Portrush
Pollen Parent: 
Green Island 2 W-GWY 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Gracious x Seraglio
Green Island
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Fairy Tale
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
10 times as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Fairy Tale
Comments

Fl. about 90 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, prominently mucronate, spreading, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, sometimes roundish, with margins a little wavy; corona bowl-shaped, more or less smooth, creamy white, with a well-defined band of vivid orange at rim, mouth slightly frilled, with rim shallowly crenate.

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Fairy TaleFairy Tale, 3 W-YYO, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1952
Photo #31144 RHS Yearbook, EnglandFairy taleFairy Tale, 3 W-YYO, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1952
Photo #21449 Ralph Sowell, USAFairy taleFairy Tale, 3 W-YYO, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1952
Photo #275 ADS Photo, USA