Apricot
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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:

de Graaff Bros.

de Graaff Bros.

Photo: Simon Adriaan de Graaff
From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

de Graaff Bros.
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1897
Awards:

AM 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 Royal Horticultural Society in 1898.AM 1898; 
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: 
N. abscissus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. abscissus
Pollen Parent: 
N. albescens Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. albescens
Chromosomes:
14
Pedigree Chart:
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Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments narrow, creamy white; corona slender, cylindrical, soft yellow, faintly tinged pale amber pink at first. Violet-scented. RHS Register lists this parentage, and also lists ‘Madame de Graaff’ hybrid as a possibility. The RHS questions if this is same daffodil as ‘Apricot’ pre-1902.

Broadleigh 1993 catalog description: “yellow trumpet fading to pale apricot with age.”

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

ApricotApricot, 1 W-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1897
Photo #59537 Drew Mc Farland, USAApricotApricot, 1 W-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1897
Photo #56147 Hein Meeuwissen, the NetherlandsApricotApricot, 1 W-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1897
Photo #56146 Hein Meeuwissen, the NetherlandsApricotApricot, 1 W-Y, de Graaff Bros., the Netherlands, 1897
Photo #15300 Hein Meeuwissen, the Netherlands