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

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1946
Awards:

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 1954.AM(e) 1954; 
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: 
Candour 2 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Quartz x Naxos
Candour
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:
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Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 130 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, spreading, plane, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, a little inflexed, creased and somewhat twisted; corona cylindrical, smooth, opening faint primrose, becoming white, with rim rolled and minutely crenate.

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PrestigePrestige, 1 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #31320 RHS Yearbook, EnglandPrestigePrestige, 1 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1946
Photo #28543 Guy L. Wilson Catalog, Northern Ireland