Sarah
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Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Hybridizer:

George Barr

d 1981. Burwash, Sussex, England; Mayfield, Sussex. Partner in Barr and Sons; co-founder 1956 of Wallace and Barr, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

George Barr
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1955
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: 
Frilled Beauty 2 Y-Y 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1900
Frilled Beauty
Pollen Parent: 
Maiden's Blush 2 W-P 
Canon Rollo Meyer, England
Year Registered: 1945
Maiden's Blush
Seedling Number:
3445
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, fairly prominently mucronate, spreading, with margins a little incurling, overlapping one-third to half; the inner segments a little inflexed, somewhat creased; corona soft pink, lightly frilled, with rim flanged and irregularly crenate.

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SarahSarah, 2 W-P, George Barr, England, 1955
Photo #37158 J. Walkers Bulbs, England