Description
‘Spurius Coronatus’ (or ‘General Gordon’?)
1Y-Y
[Yellow Trumpet 1a]
(unknown [wild?] origin, pre-1884)
We cannot be sure that this wee smasher is the selected clone ‘General Gordon’, because, as far as we know, we don’t grow other forms of ‘Spurius Coronatus’ to which it can be compared (unless ‘Henry Irving’ and ‘Ard Righ’ are considered to belong to this Group …?). The plantsman E.A. Bowles regarded N. obvallaris (the Tenby daffodil) “as the most perfect in proportion”, but I consider the broader, slightly overlapping, primrose perianth of ‘Spurius Coronatus’ superior to the ever-so-slightly depauperate, short and acute perianth segments of “Obs”. The mouth of the stout trumpet becomes widely expanded, each of the six obscure lobes evenly subdivided into two or three, neatly scored, broad and shallow crenations which, at maturity, form a recurved, narrow brim, perpendicular to the golden trumpet. Early- flowering and long-lasting; below average height with us.
