Fortune
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, before 1917
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
Sir Watkin 2 Y-Y 
W. Pickstone, England
Year Registered: 1868
Sir Watkin
Pollen Parent: 
Blackwell 2 Y-O 
William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
Blackwell
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
63 times as seed, 152 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 108 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, brilliant yellow, spreading, overlapping half; the inner segments a little inflexed, somewhat creased and with margins nicked; corona short funnel-shaped, broad, smooth, strong orange, paler towards base, mouth straight, finely ribbed, with deeply overlapping lobes, lightly frilled.

Parentage could also be ‘M.J. Berkeley’ x ‘C.J. Backhouse’ or ‘King Alfred’.

Sydney B. Mitchell (California) in “Why I Grow Daffodils- and How” in The American Daffodil Year Book published by The American Horticultural Society 1936 “ stated: “Of the golden incomps., none equals Fortune, which is early, an advantage with us, vigorous, tall, long-stemmed, long-lasting and of fine color, the cup being particularly nicely flushed with red in some season when it opens in dull weather.

According to The American Horticultural Society’s 1937 issue of the The American Daffodil Year Book, Guy L. Wilson’s article “No doubt Fortune will be planted by everyone when it becomes sufficiently moderate in prices. I do not know of any daffodil which has a more splendidly reliable constitution It makes a very fine firm healthy bulbs, and I have never heard of it being sick or sorry in any part of the world where it has been grown”

Parent Notes from the RHS: “Possibly ‘M.J. Berkeley’ x (‘C.J. Backhouse’ or ‘King Alfred’); or ‘Sir Watkin’ x ‘Blackwell'”

 

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FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #60279 Vee Kozma, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #60227 Vee Kozma, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #60226 Vee Kozma, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #60060 Vee Kozma, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #55774 Christopher Harley, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #45789 Brenda Lyon, Australia
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #41914 Keith Kridler, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #40538 Becky Fox Matthews, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #32166 John Scheepers Bulbs, Inc., USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #26051 P. de Jager and Sons, the Netherlands
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #18128 Lillian A. Guernsey, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #17889 Albert F. Calvert, England
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #17888 Albert F. Calvert, England
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #15706 Carlos van der Veek, the Netherlands
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #14098 Kirby Fong, USA
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #7829 Ian Tyler, England
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #6134 Carlos van der Veek, the Netherlands
FortuneFortune, 2 Y-O, Walter T. Ware, England, 1917
Photo #5044 Keith Kridler, USA