Month: May 2010

Seedlings 1

  All, This spring I made some new observations concerning fertility of crosses between standard daffodils and species. Tetraploid standard daffodils with four chromosome sets (NNNN) crossed with diploid species for example jonquils (JJ) give an allotriploid plant with NNJ, which should…

Round and stuffed!

Dear All, Having read Peters remarks about looking not looking at cup when judging I thought you might like to see these two pictures I took at The Daffodil Society Show this year. Two exhibitors from the North of England…

cups

L learned several years ago from listening to Peter to look more closely at the cup. Naomi

Ribbons

A few years ago at an ADS convention classes were set up and judges panels from England, NZ/AUZ and US judged them.  As I remember all 3 panels agreed. Your flowers look great.  Of course, if I was scoring an…

Brian Duncan an “Outsider”? No way!

Brian, never refer to your self as an outsider in the ADS again! You have contributed so much and participated so much in ADS activities that the society would be much poorer without your involvement! Ethel Smith in MN