Thelma
Classification:
9 W-YYR[ Poeticus ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

M. van Waveren and Sons

M. van Waveren and Sons

Photo of G. H. van Waveren
From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

M. van Waveren and Sons
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1911
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

Perianth segments oblong, squarish at apex, sometimes slightly truncate, only very slightly mucronate, snow white, spreading, plane, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments narrower, angled from shoulder to a narrow base, with margins wavy; corona disc-shaped, small, ribbed, yellow, with a narrow band of red at rim.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

ThelmaThelma, 9 W-YYR, M. van Waveren and Sons, the Netherlands, 1911
Photo #60059 Vee Kozma, USAThelmaThelma, 9 W-YYR, M. van Waveren and Sons, the Netherlands, 1911
Photo #60058 Vee Kozma, USAThelmaThelma, 9 W-YYR, M. van Waveren and Sons, the Netherlands, 1911
Photo #6692 Joe Hamm, USA