Golden Rapture
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Classification:
1 Y-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, before 1952
Awards:

*AM(p) 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 cultivation in pots, Pans or bowls

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

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1986.*AM(p) 1986; 

*FCC(g) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence 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 1985.*FCC(g) 1985; 

*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 1984.*AM(g) 1984; 

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 1962.AM Haarlem 1962; 

FCC(e) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

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

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1959.FCC(e) 1959; 
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: 
Pretoria 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1944
Shanghai x Crocus
Pretoria
Pollen Parent: 
Goldcourt 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Crocus x Cromarty
Goldcourt
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
7 times as seed, 9 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 127 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, very slightly mucronate, vivid yellow, plane or a little concave, with margins slightly incurling at apex, smooth, overlapping half; corona smoothly angled, darker in tone than the perianth, mouth ribbed and expanded, lightly frilled, rim flanged and irregularly notched. Scented.

Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 1993 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.

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Golden RaptureGolden Rapture, 1 Y-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #47599 Trevor Rollinson, New ZealandGolden RaptureGolden Rapture, 1 Y-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #31099 RHS Yearbook, EnglandGolden raptureGolden Rapture, 1 Y-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #21977 Heath Family Archives, USAGolden raptureGolden Rapture, 1 Y-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #7440 Hein Meeuwissen, the Netherlands