Merry Widow
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Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
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, 1958
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1962.AM(e) 1962; 
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: 
Templemore 2 W-W 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
White Sentinel x Forfar
Templemore
Pollen Parent: 
Salmon Trout 2 W-P 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1948
Rose of Tralee x open pollinated
Salmon Trout
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed, 3 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 92 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt and slightly mucronate, spreading or very slightly reflexed, plane, smooth, overlapping half or more; the inner segments narrower, slightly inflexed, lightly ribbed; corona funnel-shaped, loosely ribbed, soft salmon pink, very lightly frilled, with rim crenate and narrowly flanged.

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Merry widowMerry Widow, 2 W-P, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1958
Photo #360 ADS Photo, USA