Holiday Fashion
Classification:
2 W-WPP[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1956
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1967
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: 
Mabel Taylor 2 W-WPP 
Alister Clark, Australia
Year Registered: 1955
Mabel Taylor
Pollen Parent: 
Interim 2 W-YYP 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1944
Cushlake x Dava
Interim
Seedling Number:
R47/12
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Holiday Fashion
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 120 mm wide; perianth segments broad, overlapping; corona widely expanded, somewhat ribbed, deep salmon pink, with creamy pinkish white at base, frilled. Resembles ‘Cloudcap’ but with a larger and more heavily frilled corona with a deeper band of pink at rim.

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Holiday fashionHoliday Fashion, 2 W-WPP, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1967
Photo #22481 Heath Family Archives, USAHoliday fashionHoliday Fashion, 2 W-WPP, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1967
Photo #5122 Grant E. Mitsch, USAHoliday fashionHoliday Fashion, 2 W-WPP, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1967
Photo #4410 Ruth Johnson, USA