Ark Royal
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Classification:
1 Y-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, before 1945
Awards:

*AM(g) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1967.*AM(g) 1967; 
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: 
Kilkenny 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Royalist x Trenoon
Kilkenny
Pollen Parent: 
Goldcourt 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Crocus x Cromarty
Goldcourt
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide, deep golden yellow; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, spreading, somewhat ribbed, overlapping half; the inner segments a little twisted; corona funnel-shaped, deeper in tone than the perianth segments, with rim flanged and crenate.

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