Double Event
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Classification:
4 W-Y[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
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 1952
Awards:

*FCC(g) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence 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 1982.*FCC(g) 1982; 

*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 1981.*AM(g) 1981; 

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 1956.FCC(e) 1956; 

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 1952.AM(e) 1952; 
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: 
Falaise 4 W-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1945
Mary Copeland x N. poeticus ?
Falaise
Pollen Parent: 
Green Island 2 W-GWY 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Gracious x Seraglio
Green Island
Chromosomes:
29
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
5 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. rounded, 90 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments very broad, rounded at apex and truncate, very deeply overlapping; the outer whorl mucronate, spreading; the inner whorl slightly shorter, not noticeably mucronate, inflexed, with margins incurling; three segments at center strongly inflexed, with margins deeply incurling; corona segments very short, clustered among the petaloid segments at center, brilliant yellow, frilled.

Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 1993 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.

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Double EventDouble Event, 4 W-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #49183 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandDouble EventDouble Event, 4 W-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #36268 Becky Fox Matthews, USADouble EventDouble Event, 4 W-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #31435 RHS Yearbook, EnglandDouble eventDouble Event, 4 W-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #18959 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaDouble eventDouble Event, 4 W-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #4658 Wells Knierim, USA