Robert Sydenham
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Classification:
1 Y-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

M. van Waveren and Sons

M. van Waveren and Sons

Photo of G. H. van Waveren
From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

M. van Waveren and Sons
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1908
Awards:

FCC Haarlem Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence 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 1908.FCC Haarlem 1908; 
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.

Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, sulfur yellow, spreading, plane or with margins slightly wavy, overlapping half; inner segments inflexed at base, reflexed towards apex, with margins wavy; corona funnel-shaped, darker in tone than the perianth, with mouth widely expanded, rim deeply notched and crenate.

Origin of Name

Named in honor of Robert Sydenham who was a nurseryman from Birmingham (UK)and well known for his daffodils. He is still commemorated by the award of a prize in his name for vegetables at the Shrewsbury show.

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Robert SydenhamRobert Sydenham, 1 Y-Y, M. van Waveren and Sons, the Netherlands, 1908
Photo #60241 Vee Kozma, USA