Description
Nelsonii ‘Major’
2W-Y(b)
[Incomparabilis]
(Leeds, E., pre-1877)
The Nelsonii Group, popular by the 1890s, commemorates the Revd J.G. Nelson, who cultivated 26 acres of glebe at Aldborough, Norfolk. Familiarly known as “stove-pipe daffodils” – from their characteristically long, slender and cylindrical trumpet (probably derived from N. abscissus and/or N. bicolor) – they are also valued for their late-flowering. ‘Major’ has perianth segments clean white, spreading, incurving, with margins recurving; its corona deeply furrowed, rich yellow, with a straight mouth and ruffled rim.
