Frolic
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

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, 1958
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: 
(
Beersheba 1 W-W 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1923
White Knight x seedling~
Beersheba
x
Kandahar 1 Y-Y 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1923
Ben Alder x Engleheart 1Y-Y seedling~
Kandahar
)
Pollen Parent: 
Kanchenjunga 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1934
Brodie 1W-W seedling (White Knight x Conqueror) x Askelon
Kanchenjunga
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Frolic
Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as pollen
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Frolic
Comments

Perianth segments pure white, deeply overlapping; corona flared, clear lemon yellow, frilled, with rim crenate.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos  

FrolicFrolic, 1 W-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1958
Photo #53975 Michael Jefferson-Brown, EnglandFrolicFrolic, 1 W-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1958
Photo #4704 Wells Knierim, USA