Description
‘Cygnet’
1W-Y
[Bicolor Trumpet 1b]
(Haydon, G.P., pre-1902)
The long, only slightly flaring, elegantly chiselled trumpet is reminiscent of ‘Madame de Graaff’ and N. albescens. The margins of the clean white, ovate, tapering perianth segments soon recurve, but the perianth remains incurving and hooded over the soft canary-primrose yellow trumpet. The obscurely six-lobed trumpet rim gradually develops a narrow, rolled back brim of neat, regularly furrowed, crenate lobules. The broad, glaucescent foliage tends to slightly overtop the flowers. Kirby (in Daffodils – Narcissus and how to grow them; 1907) describes ‘Cygnet’ as “New, and a beauty”; Jacob (Daffodils, c.1910) as” … a flower that always seems to catch my eye on stands”.