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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

P. van Deursen

Established 1887. Sassenheim, Holland; Heemskerk

P. van Deursen
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1939
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 1939.AM Haarlem 1939; 
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: 
Roxane 1 W-W 
C.G. van Tubergen, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1927
Roxane
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Origin of Name

A description according to the 1948 issue of the J. Heemskerk catalog: “very large white perianth and bold sulphur-yellow trumpet. This variety of our own breeding is one of the very largest daffodils in existence.”

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