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Empire

£4.50

Category: DIVISION 2 LARGE-CUPPED daffodils of garden origin (Incomparabilis and Leedsii 4(a) before 1950)
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‘Empire’
2W-WYY
[Large-cupped 4a]
(Crosland, E.M., pre-1908)
Under ‘Varieties for Show Table’, the Revd Joseph Jacob wrote that ‘Empire’ was “…perhaps the finest giant Leedsii yet raised, possessing extraordinary substance” (Daffodils, c.1910). Two years later, Barrs’ Gold Medal Daffodils catalogue described the variety as “…one of the finest of this class, and a very noble and beautiful flower of highest type… crown… exquisitely frilled, foliage broad and blue-grey…”. A quarter of a century later, ‘Empire’ was still regarded as having “remarkable beautiful flowers… very noble…” in P. de Jager and Sons’ 1939 Flower-Bulbs catalogue. The broadly ovate, milk-white perianth segments are remarkably overlapping for a daffodil bred before 1908. The lightly ridged and furrowed cup flares gently to a widely expanded mouth with a slightly ruffled, crenate rim; opening clear soft yellow, it is usually creamy white by maturity.

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  • DIVISION 1 TRUMPET daffodils of garden origin
    • Borderline between Division 1 Trumpet daffodils and Division 2 Cupped daffodils
  • DIVISION 2 LARGE-CUPPED daffodils of garden origin (Incomparabilis and Leedsii 4(a) before 1950)
    • Borderline between Division 2 Large-Cupped daffodils and Division 3 Small-Cupped daffodils
  • DIVISION 3 SMALL-CUPPED daffodils of garden origin (Barrii and Leedsii 4(b) before 1950)
  • DIVISION 4 DOUBLE daffodils of garden origin
  • DIVISION 5 TRIANDRUS daffodils of garden origin
  • DIVISION 6 CYCLAMINEUS daffodils of garden origin
  • DIVISION 7 JONQUILLA daffodils of garden origin
  • DIVISION 9 POETICUS daffodils of garden origin
  • DIVISION 13 Daffodils of WILD origin species, including species and naturally occurring forms and hybrids

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Croft 16 Daffodils

16 Midtown of Inverasdale
Poolewe
Achnasheen
Wester Ross
IV22 2LW
Scotland, U.K.

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Croft 16 is a partnership, set up several years ago by Duncan and Kate Donald. Our principal business is selling surplus bulbs of heritage daffodil varieties.

In addition, we supply a local hotel and café with cut-flower daffodils, raspberries and blueberries and, in a good year, if time and weather don’t conspire against us, strawberries and surplus vegetables.

It is, quite simply, a labour of love.

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