Snow Sprite
Classification:
4 W-Y[ Double ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Barr and Sons

See Peter Barr

Barr and SonsBarr and Sons
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1913
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 1926.AM Haarlem 1926; 
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.

Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 76 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments white; the outer whorl very broad in outline, rounded and sometimes truncate at apex, slightly mucronate, snow white, spreading, with margins a little wavy, overlapping half; the inner segments somewhat inflexed; segments at center shorter, inflexed; corona segments very short, interspersed among the center petaloid segments, pale primrose yellow. Scented.

Synonyms:

'Snowsprite'

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Snow spriteSnow Sprite, 4 W-Y, Barr and Sons, England, 1913
Photo #28505 Max Schling Seedsmen Inc., USASnow spriteSnow Sprite, 4 W-Y, Barr and Sons, England, 1913
Photo #25528 Barr Catalog, EnglandSnow spriteSnow Sprite, 4 W-Y, Barr and Sons, England, 1913
Photo #6289 Willis H. Wheeler, USA