Askelon
Classification:
1 W-W[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1914
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1919
Seed Parent: 
57/08 Seedling (
Weardale Perfection 1 W-Y 
William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
N. abscissus
Weardale Perfection
x
Duke of Bedford 1 W-Y 
Barr and Sons, England
Year Registered: 1899
Duke of Bedford
)
Pollen Parent: 
Nevis 1 W-W 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1915
(King Alfred x Glory of Noordwijk) x 1 W-W seedling~
Nevis
Seedling Number:
135/A/14
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
7 times as seed, 11 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. large, creamy white; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, only slightly mucronate, spreading or a little inflexed, with margins wavy, creased, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, a little inflexed, twisted; corona funnel-shaped, smooth, greenish white, with yellow in tube, mouth ribbed and flared, a little frilled, with rim obscurely crenate