Red Abbot
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Classification:
2 W-R[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Robert O. Backhouse

b 1854 d 1940

Hereford, Herefordshire, England

Robert O. Backhouse
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1921
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: 
Hades 2 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Hades
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Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt and sometimes slightly truncate, slightly mucronate, pure white, with margins a little incurved, ribbed, overlapping one-third; the inner segments narrower, inflexed, with margins wavy; corona short funnel-shaped, intense red, with mouth expanded and lightly frilled.

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Red AbbotRed Abbot, 2 W-R, Robert O. Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #53192 Garden Club of Virginia, USARed AbbotRed Abbot, 2 W-R, Robert O. Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #53191 Garden Club of Virginia, USARed abbotRed Abbot, 2 W-R, Robert O. Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #25523 Barr Catalog, England