Pearl Harbor
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Classification:
1 W-W[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1952
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: 
Corinth 1 W-W 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1925
Nevis x Beersheba
Corinth
Pollen Parent: 
Kanchenjunga 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1934
Brodie 1W-W seedling (White Knight x Conqueror) x Askelon
Kanchenjunga
Seedling Number:
25/73
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

A description according to 1946 Mitsch Daffodil catalog: “The large white perianth (4 1/2 to 5 inches) is broad and flat and of much substance; and the flaring frilled trumpet of ivory is long and imposing but not out of proportion. The strong stems display the flower to good advantage. Opens when most other trumpet varieties are gone.”

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