White Dame
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Classification:
1 W-W[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1922
Awards:

FCC(e) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1922.FCC(e) 1922; 
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: 
Madame de Graaff 1 W-W 
de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1887
Empress x N. albescens
Madame de Graaff
?
Pollen Parent: 
Lola 1 W-W 
Ernest M. Crosfield, England
Year Registered: 1908
Madame de Graaff x Weardale Perfection
Lola
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, not prominently mucronate, spreading or a little inflexed, with margins sometimes wavy, overlapping one-third; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, ribbed, with margins twisted; corona funnel-shaped, with mouth ribbed and widely expanded, rim flanged and irregularly crenate.

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White DameWhite Dame, 1 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1922
Photo #43568 Albert F. Calvert, England