Preamble
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
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 1946
Awards:

AM Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1950.AM Haarlem 1950; 

FCC(e) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1949.FCC(e) 1949; 

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 1948.AM(e) 1948; 
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: 
Niphetos 2 W-W 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Niphetos
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
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
24 times as seed, 33 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 115 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, spreading or a little reflexed, with margins slightly wavy, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, inflexed at base, reflexed at apex; corona cylindrical, smooth, opening brilliant yellow, becoming lemon, mouth ribbed and expanded, lightly frilled, with rim flanged and crenate.

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PreamblePreamble, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #44627 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaPreamblePreamble, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #44626 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaPreamblePreamble, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #37866 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USAPreamblePreamble, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #31391 RHS Yearbook, EnglandPreamblePreamble, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #31126 RHS Yearbook, EnglandPreamblePreamble, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #27268 P. de Jager and Sons, the NetherlandsPreamblePreamble, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #12273 Ian Scroggy, Northern Ireland