First Blush
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Classification:
2 W-P ?[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1919
Hybridizer:

Alister Clark

b 1864 d 1949

Bulla, Victoria, Australia. Prop. Glenara Daffodils; Alister Clark was a renown Victorian rose breeder of yesteryear, but was also a keen breeder of daffodils. In 1897 Clark joined a syndicate, which bought the stock of daffodil bulbs bred by Rev. G. H. Engleheart. He also bought half the stock of a bulb collection made by English Shakespearean actor, George Titheradge, who was responsible for importing so many early daffodils into Australia.

Alister Clark

Alister Clark, Glenara, Bulla, Victroria, Australia

Alister Clark
, Victoria, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1960
Special Classes:
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.

, 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: 
Weardale Perfection 1 W-Y 
William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
N. abscissus
Weardale Perfection
Seedling Number:
P 82
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

First bloomed in 1919.

According to Alistair Clark’s letter published in the July 1940 issue of Journal of the California Horticultural Society Vol I, Number 3: “…my first real pink, which I all ‘First Blush’ was a seedling from ‘Weardale Perfection’. I dearly wish I could trace the pollen parent but have no record and the other flowers in that lot were worthless. ‘First Blush’ came in my “P” year and was “P 82”. My “A” year was seed gathered in 1898, and that would make the “P” year 1914 and the flowering of ‘First Blush’ five years later, 1919 or 1920.”

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