J.T. Bennett-Poë
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Classification:
5 W-Y[ Triandrus ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

b 1851 d 1936

Appleshaw, Hampshire, England; Dinton, Wiltshire

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

photo of Rev. George Herbert Engleheart via the Wiltshire OPC Project

Rev. G.H. Engleheart
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1904
Awards:

AM 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 Royal Horticultural Society in 1904.AM 1904; 
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: 
Emperor 1 Y-Y 
William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
N. bicolor x N. pseudonarcissus
Emperor
Pollen Parent: 
N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. triandrus Division 13 Species
Section: Ganymedes
N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. triandrus
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. facing down; perianth segments ovate, blunt, mucronate, creamy white, with yellow along midrib beneath, inflexed, often twisted or with margins wavy or recurved, separated; corona somewhat funnel-shaped, long, straight-sided, primrose yellow, mouth straight or a little expanded, with rim crenate.

Description in Cart.& Goodwin 1914 catalog: “perianth creamy yellow, primrose trumpet”

Description in 1956 Morrison catalog: “perianth cream, trumpet palest sulfur”

Description in 1993 Hancock catalog: “pale primrose-yellow petals and sulfur-yellow straight trumpet”

Origin of Name

According to Elizabeth Lawrence who wrote ‘Lob’s Wood’ in 1971, this daffodil was named for a man of “kindly heart and good memory, who did not forget his friends when his bulbs were dug”.

Synonyms:

'Bennett-Poë'

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

J.T. Bennett-PoeJ.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #52440 J.N. Hancock and Co., AustraliaJ.T. Bennett-PoeJ.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #45410 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaJ.T. Bennett-PoeJ.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #45409 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaJ.t. bennett-poeJ.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #1973 Kirby Fong, USA