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Below are links to viewable web pages or PDF files for Youth activities, growing information, the beautiful set of ADS Daffodil Educational Displays, ADS awards and tools for daffodil shows.  There are also links to digitized books dating from 1806 to 1904 about daffodils of their times.  Enjoy!

Click on these links for each subject:

1. ADS Designations and Awards
2. Downloadable Daffodil Show Schedule
3. Student Judges Forms
4. Regional and General Growing Resources
5. Youth Daffodil Projects and Award
6. ADS Daffodil Educational Displays
7. Daffodil Research Projects
8. Daffodil books available on the Internet, digitized by Google

ADS Designation and Daffodil Awards:

• ADS List of Daffodil Miniatures, 2008               (8 1/2" x 11" PDF 65K)
                                                                           (5 1/2" x 8" size PDF 65K)
• ADS Suggested List for Intermediates,2008     (8 1/2" x 11" PDF 53K)
                                                                           (5 1/2" x 8" size PDF 120K)
• ADS List of HIstoric Daffodils, 2007                  (8 12/" x 11" PDF 114K)
• Pannill Award Criteria and List                         (8 1/2" x 11" PDF 92K)
                                                                           (5 1/2" x 8" size PDF 90K)
• Wister Award Criteria and List                          (8 1/2" x 11" PDF 91K)
                                                                           (5 1/2" x 8" size PDF 100K)

Show Schedule as of Jan 15, 2009, & Innovator Award Criteria:

• ADS National Show Schedule  PDF (100K)
• ADS National Show Schedule, MS Word (220K)
• Critiera for Innovation Medal for National Conventions Only (33K)

ADS Student Judges Forms:

• Student Judges Report and Evaluation Form PDF (100K)
• Application Form to become an ADS Accredited Judge (85K)

Regional and General Daffodil Growing Resources:

• A Pocket Guide to Daffodils in brochure format (600K)
  or (lower resolution 378K) as of June 2009
• Growing Daffodils in various Regions in the United States (87K)
• Growing Daffodils in the Deep South in brochure format (94K)
• Suggested Daffodil Cultivars for Iowa in brochure format (76K)
• Forcing Daffodils (80K)
• Forcing Daffodils, North Carolina Coop Ext
• Daffodils coming up Early? (42K)  This article was first published on Suite101 at this link: www.suite101.com/article.cfm/daffodils/16335

Youth & Education Daffodil Projects and Award:

• Youth Award for Outstanding Achievement in Daffodils
• Parts of a Daffodil--Daffodil Botany Drawing, (PDF 329 KB)
• Parts of a Daffodil--Text Description (PDF 175K)
• Daffodil Lab - Text instructions for how to lead a daffodil dissection activity (PDF 189K)
• Daffodil Dissection Guide with Photos & Terms "Inner Secrets Revealed" (PDF 220K)
• Directions to make Tissue Daffodils

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

• Division 1, 101 KB
• Division 2,  146 KB
• Division 3,  130 KB
• Division 4,  130 KB
• Division 5,  105 KB
• Division 6, 117 KB
• Division 7, 134 KB
• Division 8,  144 KB
• Division 9,  120 KB
• Division 10, 190 KB
• Division 11, 136 KB
• Division 12, 172 KB
• Division 13,  115 KB
• All 13 Daffodil Divisions combined on one page, 387 KB

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 3.0MB
   
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 7.5MB
   
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 5.0MB
   
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 6.0MB

Daffodil Research Projects

ADS Funded Daffodil Research Project Results

Below is the complete research paper which was produced by Dr. Don Hunter of New Zealand and his team.  The ADS funded this research in an effort to determine why reverse bicolor color daffodils frequently have color breaks. 

1. "The Cause for Color Break in Reverse Bicolor Daffodils", conducted by D Hunter, H Zhang, J Fletcher, & K Davies, January 2007,
   New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research Limited,
   Palmerston North, New Zealand
   Download "Cause of Color Break in Daffodils," 1.44MB

Other Daffodil Research Project Results

• A study by Dr. B.J.M Zonneveld (the Netherlands, 2008) on the taxonomy of the species Narcissus has come from Holland.  The article was accepted for publication in Plant Systematics and Evolution on 24 January 2008. 
  Download "The systematic value of nuclear DNA content for all species of Narcissus L. (Amaryllidaceae)", 340K
  or go to this link: springerlink.com

• "Chromosome Counts in Narcissus Cultivars," by Peter E. Brandham (United Kingdom 1999).  First appeared in the RHS Daffodil and Tulip Yearbook, 1999-2000; 39-44.
  PDF for A4 Paper Size 140K
  PDF for 8 1/2 by 11" Size 140K

• Daffodil Biomechanics, by Adam Summer (USA 2002), University California Irvine

• Evolution & maintenance of stigma-height dimorphism in Narcissus. Paper II

• "Pickling Paperwhites", Cornell University Bulb Research Program.  This paper is about growing paperwhites indoors in dilute solutions of alcohol.

• Royal Society of Chemistry article - Management of Basal Rot

• U.C. Davis, Narcissus Diseases

• Narcissus Fungal Foliar Diseases, Warwick HRI

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

• Curtis Botanical Magazine, 1806 Search for daffodils or narcissus

• Amaryllidaceae, by Dean Herbert.  1837. There's a section on Narcissus.

• Bulbs:  Hardy and Tender Bulbs and Tubers, by Edward Sprague Rand, Jr., 1866

• The Narcissus, Its History and Culture  Burbidge and Baker. 1875.

• Ye Narcissus or Daffodyl Flowere, Peter Barr, 1884

• Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1889. Search for daffodils or narcissus

• Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, 1901. Search for narcissus or daffodils

• The Book of the Daffodil, by the Rev. W. Eugene Bourne.  1903.
  This book is also available from the University of California in FlipBook Form

• Daffodils narcissus and How to Grow Them, by A. M. Kirby, 1914

• Narcissus and Daffodil, The genus Narcissius, edited b Gordon R. Hanks, 2002

Other Daffodil Books in these libraries:

• Gerarde's catalogue of plants he cultivated in his garden, 1566-1599

• The Herball, or, Generall historie of plantes/gathered by John Gerarde of London master in chirurgerie, 1636
  (Commonly known as Gerard's Herbal); daffodils on pages 123-137. 

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

• Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris, or A Garden of Pleasant Flowers, from 1629.

• Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum, including Narcissorum Revisio, Haworth, 1819 (Index begins p. 153; narcissus entries begin p. 111)

• A monograph on the Subordo V. of Amaryllideae, Narcissine, 1831

• Botanicus Digital Library, a portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.  Search for daffodil, narcissus, amaryllid, etc.

• 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.

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