Rathkenny
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
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 1938
Awards:

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 1938.AM(e) 1938; 
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: 
( Engleheart seedling x
Vestal Virgin 1 W-W 
Henry Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1908
Madame de Graaff x Weardale Perfection
Vestal Virgin
)
Pollen Parent: 
Kenbane 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1927
1W-W seedling (Madame de Graaff x King Alfred) x open pollinated
Kenbane
Chromosomes:
28 + 1B
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, only slightly mucronate, greenish white, spreading, with margins sometimes incurving, overlapping one-third; the inner segments inflexed at base, recurved in upper half, with margins wavy; corona slender, bright chrome yellow, mouth expanded, with rim widely flanged and lightly frilled.

Synonyms:

'Rothkenny'

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RathkennyRathkenny, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1938
Photo #31289 RHS Yearbook, England