Month: August 2009

Emailing: N. Xit, N.Snipe

A couple of my favourite white miniatures, which don’t need introduction. Snipe of course is a very good fertile parent variety, which I use extensively when I cross it with the cyclamineus species and other white fertile hybrid/seedlings. Xit, no doubt…

Boubuet

Bouquet  again . A  small percent  have  pistils  —  visible in  the  center  of  the big  photo . Fertile  both  seed and  pollen … Seen  at  the  shows  in  the  eighties and  nineties  but the  bar  is  a  lot  higher …

Bouquet

The  N Z  Daffodil  Annual  2009  featured  the  late  Jim  O,More  ,  a  breeder  and  showman  who  had  a strong  influence  on  many  of  our  current  leading  ybridists and  exhibitors    Bouquet  —  4 W  – P  —  Jim  O…

Matangi

The  most  prominent feature  of  Matangi  is  the  roll  at  the  end  of  the  trumpet. Very  distinctive ,  usually  unbroken  and  quite  serrated . A  strong  gold ,  early  mid  season  classic  trumpet .   John