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Below are links to viewable web pages or PDF files for Youth activities, growing information by region, the beautiful set of ADS Daffodil Educational Displays, ADS awards and tools for daffodil shows.  There are scripts and power point slides to give presentations or use as a self-study.  Check out the links to digitized books dating from 1806 to 1904 about daffodils of their times.  Enjoy!

Click on these links for each subject:

  1. ADS Awards
  2. ADS Special Classes of Daffodils
  3. ADS Schedule, Photo Entry Cards, Results forms and Innovation criteria
  4. Student Judges & Refresher Forms
  5. ADS Promotional Pages
  6. Regional and General Growing Resources
  7. Youth Daffodil Projects and Award
  8. ADS Media Programs and Self-Study Tools
  9. ADS Daffodil Educational Displays
  10. Daffodil Research Projects
  11. Daffodil books available on the Internet, digitized by Google
  12. Daffodil articles

ADS Awards

 

ADS Specialized Daffodil Classes:

ADS Show Forms:

Show Schedules

About Sample ADS Schedules (view here or download PDF)            PDF (12k)

  • ADS National Show Schedule - form 1, Nov 2011               PDF (970K)
    Original format w/sequential numbering

  • ADS National Show Schedule, - form 1, Nov 2011              MS Word (180K)
    Original format w/sequential numbering

  • ADS National Show Schedule, - form 2, Nov 2011               PDF (370K)
    Flexible format w/numbering within sections

  • ADS National Show Schedule, form 2, Nov 2011                 MS Word (268K)
    Flexible format w/numbering within sections

  • ADS National Show Schedule for Warm Climates, - form 3, Nov 2011
    Flexible format w/numbering within sections                         PDF (372K)

  • ADS National Show Schedule for Warm Climates, - form 3, Nov 2011
    Flexible format w/numbering within sections                       MS Word (269K)

  • ADS Regional Show Schedule, - form 2, Nov 2011           PDF (422K)
    Flexible format w/numbering within sections

  • ADS Regional Show Schedule, form 2, Nov 2011              MS Word (416K)
    Flexible format w/numbering within sections

 

Show Results Forms to complete and return to the ADS

  • ADS National Show Results Form, Nov. 2011       MS Word (140K)
                                                                                 PDF (112K)

  • ADS Regional Show Results Form, Nov. 2011     MS Word (101K)
                                                                                PDF (112K)
  • ADS Local Show Results Form, Nov. 2011,         MS Word (94K)
                                                                                PDF (100K)

 

ADS Student Judges & Judges Refresher Forms:

  • Student Judges Report and Evaluation, Nov 2011, Form          PDF (68K)

  • Application Form to become an Accredited Judge, Nov 2011,  PDF (76K)

  • ADS Judges Refresher Roster form, Nov 2011,                  MS Word (23K)

 

"ADS Promo" pages to be used with presentations, place on CDs  and other areas where a short promotion is needed.

Regional and General Daffodil Growing Resources:

 

Youth & Education Daffodil Projects and Award:

     Below are coloring pages for each daffodil division as well as one page with all the divisions:

 

ADS Media Programs & References

Below are Power Point programs about daffodils, accompanied with notes and scripts that are perfect for presenting at any garden or daffodil meeting or event.  There is also as a select group of CDs  identified as reference materials for self-study.   All of these files are in PDF format, including the Power Point presentations.  Some of these are large files and will requrie Hi-speed Internet connectivity to safely download.

If you give one of these presentations at a meeting or event, please acknowledge the American Daffodil Society as the source for theh program and information.  Also, please consider taking ADS membership forms with you for those who would like to learn more and become involved with daffodils. (ADS membership form)  Enjoy!

  • Let's Grow Daffodils
    An introductory presentation suitable for garden clubs or people new to daffodils.  Beautiful color images of daffodils and helpful informaton will inspire any gardener!
    Notes 15K
    Script 45K
    Presentation 1.6MB

 

ADS Daffodil Educational Displays:

Below are PDFs for a set of four colorful educational displays created by the American Daffodil Society in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota.  These displays are sometimes referred to as the ADS Daffodil Exhibit Banners.  The design and production of the initial sets of large fabric banners were partially funded by the National Science Foundation.  The American Daffodil Society retains the copyright on these materials, but will allow the following PDF files to be printed and displayed for educational use only, such as for garden talks, schools, and daffodil shows. 

For reference, the banner "Trace the path to pink" is legible when printed by a professional printer on paper at a size as small as 8-1/2" by 20".

  1. Discover Daffodils!
    Displays a large vase of colorful daffodils and describes the activities and membership benefits of the American Daffodil Society.  Original banner size: 30" x 84"

    Download ADS Info Banner 3 MB
  2. How do Daffodils Grow?
    Details the steps needed to produce a new flower from pollination to flowering bulb.  Includes a daffodil plant diagram with parts labeled and clarification on what is a daffodil.  Original banner size: 36" x 84"

    Download Daffodils Grow 7.5 MB
  3. Daffodils...so many choices!
    Highlights a flower photo and description for each of the thirteen daffodil divisions, explains how to read daffodil color codes, and includes excerpts from the poem Daffodils by William Wordsworth.  Original banner size: 48" x 84".

    Download Daffodil Divisions 5 MB
  4. Trace the path to pink.
    Follows the family history of a modern pink-cupped daffodil back to some of its early ancestors.  Compare the photos to see how daffodils have changed from the species to our modern hybrids.  Original banner size: 36" x 84"

    Download Path to Pink 6 MB
ADS Member Sue Nyhammer prepared this handbook to give guidance and support about how to use and care for a set of ADS Displays.  It is a twelve page booklet complete with color photos and steps for setting up, storing and shipping these displays. 
Click here to Download the ADS Display Handbook 4.5 MB

 

Daffodil Research Projects

  • "Bulbs Scale Mites and Narcissus",  To determine the longevity of adult bulb scale miles outside Narcissus bulbs, and to investigate soil as a potential source of infestation. Prepared by Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, England. PDF 200K
  • Evolution & maintenance of stigma-height dimorphism in Narcissus. Paper II, Angela M Baker, John D Thompson and Spencer C H Barrett; funded by an operating grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to S.C.H.B. and a grant from CNRS to J.D.T. A.M.B. was supported by graduate scholarships from NSERC and the Ontario government.
  • "Pickling Paperwhites", Cornell University Bulb Research Program.  This paper is about growing paperwhites indoors in dilute solutions of alcohol.

 

Daffodil Books in chronological order on the Internet digitized by Google:

Other Daffodil Books in these libraries:

Note that the Sea Daffodil on p. 173, though once called Narcissus Matthioli, is not a daffodil at all.  Gerard gives several other names for it.  The second link is probably the more useful one

  • Biodiversity Library   A consortium of ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections.  Search for narcissus, amaryllid, daffodil, etc.

 

Daffodil Articles:

  • Iris-bulbeuses.org   An article about N. triandrus var. triandrus growing in the Iles de Glenan, which supposedly the only place where N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. loiseleurii grows naturally.
  • "The Daffodil", published in the New Zealand Star, September 20, 1895.
  • "The Daffodil Growers", about Robert and Sarah Backhouse; Parks & Gardens UK (parksandgardens.ac.uk, August 7, 2011)

 

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