Description
‘Precentor’
1Y-Y
[Trumpet, 1a]
(Slieve Donard Nursery, pre-1931)
The original stock of this plant was bought up by the Dorrien-Smith family from Tresco, so it has never achieved a wide commercial distribution and remains very rare. I find associating this somewhat uncourtly daffodil with the churchgoer leading metrical psalms a capella challenging, as it would appear to be more akin to the fervent response from the Free Church of Scotland congregation. I suspect the epithet reflects its earliness: it does truly belong to the opening salvo of the daffodil season, flowering beside the paler ‘The First’. The perianth segments are reminiscent of ‘Magnificence’: slender-ovate and spreading twisted wings of light canary-yellow. The trumpet, of a shade between aureolin and chrome, is smoother, less chiselled, with a simpler margin; the unevenly and loosely crenate lobes divided by wide notches. Of average height.
