All –
I’ve run across this flower in a number of gardens now; I apologize the images aren’t better for ID purposes… It is an early season bloomer, and a very large flower. As I’ve found it here and there in gardens of various socio-economic statuses, I figure it had to have been common back in the 1910s and 1920s. I’ve been calling it Maximus so it has a name I can easily recognize whilst going thru my flower shots, but I’m not wedded to that. Any thoughts much appreciated…
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Sara,
It looks to me very much like “Dutch Master” which is an early bloomer. Registered pre 1938 and on the ADS historic’s list.
Regards, Keith Capper
In message <.c om>, Sara VanBeck <> writes
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Dutchmasters is not registered as far back as the 1910 to 1920 period that Sara was suggesting. Dutchmasters is just another of those daffodils that people sell today as a “knock-off” ‘King Alfred’.
Clay
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