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Historics

46 Cultivars Listed

Defined as any daffodil cultivar registered or referenced before 1940. Like our Grandfather said " the bad houses fell down a long time ago". Long lived, often tall with a simple beauty that has been obscured in fancier new cultivars. Historic daffodils culture, like Southern daffodil culture is well established and committed. We are fortunate to be able to list a lot of historic daffodils that have been passed down from generation to generation of growers and collectors.

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Aflame
Aflame
Aflame

3 W-YOO

pre-1938

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$3.75

Tall, old, historic Narcissus with a deeply colored cup. ADS Historic. Breeding potential.

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April Queen
April Queen
April Queen

2 W-YYO

pre-1938

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$3.00

Beefy and Bright April Queen is an older variety that is enjoying a newly found cult of admirers. Blooms out of the leaves, blooms more into May for us in 6a.

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April Tears
April Tears
April Tears

5 Y-Y

pre-1939

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$1.25

April Tears is an Alec Gray cross of species N.jonquilla and N.triandrus. Seed parent to the terrific Tripartite. Similar to Hawera.

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Argent
Argent
Argent

4 W-Y

pre-1902

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$3.25

An antique double. A truly joyous bloomer that deserves a place in any border or cottage garden. Daughter of Telamonious Plenus and Ornatus.

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Barri Conspicuus
Barri Conspicuus
Barri Conspicuus

3 W-YYO

pre-1869

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$3.75

Here is one of the founding members of the Iron Ladies and Marathon Men Daffodil Club. A very old Backhouse seedling, Conspicuous , aka Barri Conspicuus, has broad petals for an antique, a long 90 degree neck, and a yellow petal color that transmogrifies to creamy white. The cup is a pleasing yet intense yellow orange with just the right amount of Victorian frilly bling. A truly great landscape flower that has been dug and replanted for 150 years, and with good reason. ADS Historic.

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Brilliancy
Brilliancy
Brilliancy

3 Y-YYO

pre-1906

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$3.75

An Englehardt cultivar, similar to Conspicuus , but Brilliancy keeps his yellow perianth color, loud cup, and is really tall. Another old timer that brings real, perennial, spring glory to the bed and landscape. Unlike us, the petals get slender and slim with age. Small availability,

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Butter and Eggs
Butter and Eggs
Butter and Eggs

4 Y-Y

pre-1777

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$2.00

This long celebrated double is new to our list. She is a magnificent creature and as old as the hills, as fresh as the dawn. Good for all uses and certainly as a conversation piece. I seldom see Butter and Eggs on the bench, but in a historical group certainly one to have. Fabulous and luxurious North, South, East, and West.

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Buttercup
Buttercup
Buttercup

7 Y-Y

pre-1890

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$3.75

Anyone referring to a flower named 'Buttercup' elicits all kinds of confusion. Are they referencing a Ranunculus, using a generic term for jonquils that bloom freely in the South, increasingly as an alias for Tête-à-Tête? One of the several daffodils registered under that name? We offer the historic Rev. Engleheart jonquilla 'Buttercup', a strong grower with large flowers more reminiscent of a historic small cup. Rare. Brings intense happiness to the gardener. Smells good.

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Cantatrice
Cantatrice
Cantatrice

1 W-W

pre-1936

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$3.75

Frilled and smooth and white all over, Cantatrice was the standard bearer for white trumpets in the mid 20th Century. Famously good on the bench, in the border and in the pot. From Beersheba. ADS Historic.

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Cyclataz
Cyclataz
Cyclataz

12 Y-O

pre-1922

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$2.00

Cyclataz is the lovechild of a species CYCLAmineus and the TAZetta Grande Soleil d'Or . Vigorous, floriferous, wild in form, rich in color. Cyclataz does well in pot culture. ADS Historic. ADS Miniature. She is also the parent of three notable offsprin

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Duchess of Westminster
Duchess of Westminster
Duchess of Westminster

2 W-W

pre-1869

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$3.75

A very old white on white large cup, the Duchess of Westminster is a bit of a plain Jane by modern standards, but retains all of her 19th century to-the-manor-born-country-girl charm. The old gal opens white yellow but matures to swan white. A rare Billy Backhouse cultivar.

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Early Splendour
Early Splendour
Early Splendour

8 W-O

pre-1938

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$3.50

A historic poetaz, Early Spendour has ample wide petals and a brilliant over all coloration that sings in the sunlight. Easy to photograph, easy to fall in love with. ADS historic.

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Elegance
Elegance
Elegance

3 Y-Y

pre-1908

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$5.00

An antique all over mellow yellow small cup from the Rev Engleheart. This is a rare daffodil, so rare that it is rumored not to exist. But here we are one hundred years on with no end in sight. Petals get slim, acute, and shouldered with age. Swellegant ( thanks Cole Porter).

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Feu de Joie
Feu de Joie
Feu de Joie

4 W-O

pre-1927

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$4.00

Do you have a desert island daffodil ? (dit vertaalt zich niet in het Nederlands). Feu de Joie is mine, I would be happily banished to a desert island or even asteroid B-612 for that matter if I could take only this flower. We are swooning and proud that this flower finally made our list. Returns and rewards annually in the garden. Every bloom better than the next. Antique white / orange double. ADS Historic. Very limited stock.

Le feu de joie, ces’t un beau coup de fusil.

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Firebrand
Firebrand
Firebrand

3 WWY-R

pre-1897

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$3.75

Watching a planting of Firebrand in bloom blow in the breeze on a sunny spring day is an encounter you will never let slip from memory. A poster child for the greatness of historic, small-cupped daffodils – mostly bred by tweed wearing clerics and the landed gentry. A handsome devil, much like Lucifer . Increases with a little care.

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Frank Miles
Frank Miles
Frank Miles

2 Y-Y

pre-1877

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$3.75

Frank Miles has been bringing his sunny disposition to the landscape for 150 years. A two-toned gold on gold large cup that is stunning in the border. If you can have only one antique in your garden, Frank will be a long lasting and loyal friend. Frank was a friend of Oscar Wilde and not homely at all. Historic. Rare.

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Gloriosus
Gloriosus
Gloriosus

8 W-O

pre-1883

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$3.75

Gloriosus is a floriferous and beautiful very old tazetta with strong orange colored cups and a classic strong, sweet, fragrance. Pollen and seed fertile Glorious is also self fertile and “seeds like crazy”. A thing of joy and glory forced in a pot or as a cut flower. Needs a winter blanket in northern zones. Not to be confused with the tazetta cultivar “Glorious”.

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Glory of Lisse
Glory of Lisse
Glory of Lisse

9 W-YYR

pre-1908

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$4.50

The old town of Lisse in South Holland is in a traditional bulb growing region. But in the second half of the 20th century many growers moved to North Holland where there is more clay soil, more wind, and less pressure from land development. Glory of Lisse is a historic Poeticus derived from the species radiiflorus that shows great poise and fortitude. Highly fertile.

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Glowing Phoenix
Glowing Phoenix
Glowing Phoenix

4 Y-O

pre-1930

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$3.75

A lovely, older Robert Backhouse cultivar. Glowing Phoenix is wild and sparse double, colorful and free. Rare. Very early. ADS Historic.

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Golden Sceptre
Golden Sceptre
Golden Sceptre

7 Y-Y

pre-1914

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$3.75

A large flowered and deep cylindrical cupped jonquil that has been going strong for a century. Fragrant and lanky, well-loved in the South. Long lived and long lasting. ADS Historic.

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Grand Monarque
Grand Monarque
Grand Monarque

8 W-Y

pre-1759

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$3.50

Grand Monarque is an old and important Tazetta, once grown in great numbers for the cut flower market. Recently it has produced some remarkable seedlings. Plainly colored, Floriferous and fragrant. From the species N. tazetta subsp. lacticolor

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Helios
Helios
Helios

2 Y-O

pre-1912

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$3.75

Plain when compared to modern cultivars, but distinguished and dignified in its simple form. More than one customer relayed a similar story, it goes something like this. “When I was young I visited a neighbor with daffodil bed that included Helios, I fell in love at first sight and never forgot it. I am so happy that it is still available, having given up on ever finding it.”

It also turns out Helios is sought after by those in pharmaceutical research, as it is remarkably high in the alkaloid narciclasine. The compound lycorine, also present in daffodils, is what makes them poisonous, unpalatable and thus “deer proof”.

Helios is classified as a standard, but is easily at the upper height limits – it sails over the spring bed.

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Horace
Horace
Horace

9 W-GOR

pre-1894

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$3.75

An old poet who, even with the demise of the interest in Latin, continues to be relevant. Horace is tall and like Kansas is as flat as a pancake. As he ages he progresses from a rounded flower to a spellbing rounded star. An offspring of Ornatus.

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Insulinde
Insulinde
Insulinde

4 W-O

pre-1921

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$3.75

Many of the historic old blooms that we love are star-flowered small cups. But watch out, the free formed, star shaped, old doubles will steal your heart. Insulinde is ivory and tangerine and libertine all over. Hard to to pick a favorite from others in this style : Argent, Feu de Joie. Long lived, long lasting, held aloft on robust scapes. A Backhouse cultivar.

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Jacqueline
Jacqueline
Jacqueline

2 W-O

pre-1927

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$3.25

A taller old white petaled maiden with an ample, orange, and frilled disc cup that can become reflexed. Patrimony is unknown, but a great example of this form, much more substantial and upright than Professor Einstein who has all but disappeared from cultivation. Jacquline brings a sunny and easy disposition wherever she goes.

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John Evelyn
John Evelyn
John Evelyn

2 W-O

pre-1920

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$3.75

A historic that is new to our list, John Evelyn is a white / orange large cup with enough frills in the cup to make a dust ruffle for a king sized bed. Nearly as fecund as Genghis Khan, John’s many children include overachievers such as Ice Follies and White Lion.

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Kitty
Kitty
Kitty

6 W-Y

pre-1942

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$3.00

Kitty (Pre-1942)

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La Riante
La Riante
La Riante

3 W-YOO

pre-1931

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$3.75

Well rounded and bright, La Riante is a sassy old small cup. Historic and contrasty, broad white petals with a yellow orange ribbed cup. La Riante was very common in trade mid century. May sun burn without afternoon shade. Rare.

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