Pink o' Dawn
Classification:
1 W-P[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Crawford E. Radcliff

b 1879 d 1949

Crawford Ernest Radcliff; . Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Crawford E. Radcliff
, Tasmania, Australia
Registered:
Yes, before 1931
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: 
Mrs. W. Moodie 1 W-W 
David V. West, Australia
Year Registered: 1927
Mrs. W. Moodie
Pollen Parent: 
Lemon Star 2 W-Y 
William F.M. Copeland, England
Year Registered: 1907
Lemon Star
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
22 times as seed, 30 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, spreading, ribbed, with margins very slightly incurling at apex, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, of apparently varying width, slightly inflexed; corona bowl-shaped, with mouth expanded and loosely frilled, rim notched and crenate.

W. Jackson article ‘The Breeding of Pink Daffodils in Tasmania’ for Lemon Star as pollen parent. The RHS has the registration as ‘Lemon Star’ x ‘Mrs. W. Moodie’.

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

Pink o' DawnPink o' Dawn, 1 W-P, Crawford E. Radcliff, Australia, 1931
Photo #31390 RHS Yearbook, EnglandPink o' dawnPink o' Dawn, 1 W-P, Crawford E. Radcliff, Australia, 1931
Photo #2478 Kirby Fong, USA