Saint Mary
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Classification:
1 W-W[ 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 1944
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 1956.AM Haarlem 1956; 
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: 
Quartz 1 W-W 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1920
Morven x White Emperor
Quartz
Pollen Parent: 
Diva 2 W-Y 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1935
(Madame de Graaff x unknown) x Naxos
Diva
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed, 3 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Green shading at base of flower; cup has expanded mouth.

A description according to 1947 Max Schling Seedsmen catalog: “An exquisite pure ice white trumpet of utmost refinement, perfection of proportion, beauty of form and quality of texture. Broad perianth of fine substance and lovely somewhat slender but graceful bell-flanged trumpet, green rather than yellow shading at the base of the flower.”

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