Fontmell
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Hybridizer:

R.C.A. (Jack) Tombleson

d 1983. Gisborne, New Zealand

R.C.A. (Jack) Tombleson
, North Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 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: 
Preamble 1 W-Y 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1946
Niphetos x Kanchenjunga
Preamble
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 108 mm wide; corona deep lemon yellow. Resembles a later-flowered ‘Preamble’ with a deeper-toned and unfading corona

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