Shannon
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, before 1937
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1942.AM(e) 1942; 
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: 
White Emperor 1 W-W 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1913
J.B.M. Camm x Madame de Graaff
White Emperor
Pollen Parent: 
Beersheba 1 W-W 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1923
White Knight x seedling~
Beersheba
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. about 105 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate in outline, blunt or squarish at apex, slightly mucronate, spreading, plane, of great substance, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, square-shouldered at base, only very slightly mucronate, inflexed at base, reflexed at apex; corona cylindrical, smooth, with mouth expanded and even, rim rolled and crenate.

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