Milkmaid
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Percival D. Williams

b 1865 d 1935

St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Percival D. Williams

From 1914 RHS Daffodil Yearbook

Percival D. Williams
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1907
Awards:

*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 1936.*HC(g) 1936; 

*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 1930.*HC(g) 1930; 

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 1925.AM(e) 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: 
The Fawn 2 W-W 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1908
Minnie Hume x Weardale Perfection
The Fawn
Pollen Parent: 
Maximus 1 Y-Y 
: Unknown,
Year Registered: 1576
(N. Hispanicus x unknown)
Maximus
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, white, tinged creamy white, spreading, overlapping half; the inner segments a little inflexed, with margins wavy; corona expanded, opening rich creamy white, becoming milk white, loosely frilled. 

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MilkmaidMilkmaid, 2 W-W, Percival D. Williams, England, 1907
Photo #43507 Albert F. Calvert, England