Firelight
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Classification:
2 Y-YYO[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Hybridizer:

Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse

b 1857 d 1921

Hereford, Herefordshire, England

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, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1903
Awards:

AM Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1903.AM 1903; 
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: 
N. obvallaris Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. obvallaris
Pollen Parent: 
N. radiiflorus var. poetarum Division 13 Species
Section: Narcissus
N. radiiflorus var. poetarum
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 73 mm wide, facing down; perianth segments pale bright lemon, with margins incurved, irregular, separated; corona funnel-shaped, lemon, with a broad band of reddish orange at rim.

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