Golden Perfection
Classification:
7 Y-Y[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

de Graaff Bros.

de Graaff Bros.

Photo: Simon Adriaan de Graaff
From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

de Graaff Bros.
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1925
Awards:

*AM(g) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1944.*AM(g) 1944; 

*HC(g) Award

This plant earned the status of Highly Commended (HC)

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1941.*HC(g) 1941; 

FCC Haarlem Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1926.FCC Haarlem 1926; 

AM Haarlem 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 Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1925.AM Haarlem 1925; 
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. x odorus Division 13 Species
Section: Intersectional Hybrid
N. jonquilla and N. pseudonarcissus OR N. jonquilla and N. hispanicus
N. x odorus
Pollen Parent: 
Homespun 2 Y-Y 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1905
Golden Spur x Ornatus
Homespun
Chromosomes:
31
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 2-3 per stem, 92 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt or squarish at apex, sometimes truncate, with slight white mucro, brilliant greenish yellow, spreading, plane, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, shouldered at base, somewhat inflexed, with margins wavy; corona short funnel-shaped, lightly ribbed, vivid yellow, mouth widely expanded and wavy, with rim notched and crenate. Scented.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

Golden PerfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #49429 Kirby Fong, USAGolden PerfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #49428 Kirby Fong, USAGolden PerfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #47144 Theodore E. Snazelle, USAGolden PerfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #45979 Oregon Bulb Farms, USAGolden perfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #12541 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAGolden perfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #12540 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAGolden perfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #12539 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAGolden perfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #6209 Willis H. Wheeler, USAGolden perfectionGolden Perfection, 7 Y-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1925
Photo #1776 Kirby Fong, USA