Red Arrow
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Classification:
1 Y-O[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

William Ormston Backhouse

b 1885 d 1962

Rio Negro, Argentina; Hereford, Herefordshire, England

William Ormston Backhouse
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1968
Registrant:

C. Reginald Wootton

b 1897 d 1970

Bloxwich, Staffordshire, England

C. Reginald Wootton
, England, UK
Awards:

PC Award

This plant earned the Certificate of Preliminary Commendation (PC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to a new plant of promise for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1967.PC 1967; 
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: 
Red Curtain 1 Y-O 
William Ormston Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1956
Red Curtain
Pollen Parent: 
Brer Fox 1 Y-O 
William Ormston Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1959
Brer Fox
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Corona reddish orange.

Received the PC in 1967 under the name ‘Sonnet’.

Synonyms:

'Sonnet###'

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos  

Red ArrowRed Arrow, 1 Y-O, William Ormston Backhouse, England, 1968
Photo #43890 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USARed ArrowRed Arrow, 1 Y-O, William Ormston Backhouse, England, 1968
Photo #37859 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USARed ArrowRed Arrow, 1 Y-O, William Ormston Backhouse, England, 1968
Photo #37858 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USARed ArrowRed Arrow, 1 Y-O, William Ormston Backhouse, England, 1968
Photo #33708 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USARed arrowRed Arrow, 1 Y-O, William Ormston Backhouse, England, 1968
Photo #22043 Heath Family Archives, USA