Cool Crystal
Classification:
3 W-GWW[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Raiser:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1966
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 1985.AM(e) 1985; 
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Seed Parent: 
(
Chinese White 3 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Silver Plane x (Silver Coin x unknown)
Chinese White
x unknown )
Seedling Number:
T10
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
20 times as seed, 10 times as pollen
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Cool Crystal
Comments

Fl. 107 mm wide; perianth segments white, touched bright green at base, slightly reflexed, regular, overlapping; corona ribbed, white, with light green at extreme base, mouth expanded and frilled, with rim crenate. Resembles ‘Wings of Song’ but with a more rounded flower and a smaller corona.

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Cool CrystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #59715 Sue Taylor, EnglandCool CrystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #49714 Lawrence Trevanion, AustraliaCool CrystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #46569 Ron Tyrrell, New ZealandCool CrystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #45146 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaCool CrystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #40784 Derrick Turbitt, Northern IrelandCool crystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #10829 Kirby Fong, USACool crystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #10828 Kirby Fong, USACool crystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #10223 Gordon Coombes, New ZealandCool crystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #9611 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandCool crystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #8943 Ian Tyler, EnglandCool crystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #7613 Ian Scroggy, Northern IrelandCool crystalCool Crystal, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #3251 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA