Montaz
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Classification:
12 W-W[ Miscellaneous ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

Sir Michael Foster

Sir Michael Foster
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1905
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: 
N. cantabricus subsp. monophyllus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. cantabricus subsp. monophyllus
Pollen Parent: 
N. tazetta Division 13 Species
Section: Tazettae
N. tazetta
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 1-2 per stem, 25 mm wide, facing up; perianth segments ovate, spreading; corona short funnel-shaped, with mouth straight.

A description according to Sir Michael Foster published in the Gardner’s Chronicles, dated February1905, stated “A stout round scape 25 cm. (both leaves and scapes are probably somewhat “drawn up” by greenhouse cultivation) or less in height, bears one or two flowers save for the orange of the fairly abundant pollen, very like those of N. triandrus, except that the stamens are of equal length…”

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MontazMontaz, 12 W-W, Sir Michael Foster, England, 1905
Photo #46841 Unknown Historic Source