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The American Daffodil Society, Inc (ADS) was founded in 1954 to promote wider interest in daffodils; to encourage scientific research and education on daffodil culture, breeding, diseases, pests, exhibiting, and testing; to encourage, coordinate, and sponsor shows and exhibitions of daffodils; to record and disseminate horticultural information about daffodils and issue publications for such purpose; and to register daffodil varieties and standardize their names in cooperation with international authorities. To that end, the ADS publishes quarterly The Daffodil Journal, an 80-page magazine that covers all aspects of daffodil culture, breeding, and exhibition.

The ADS has more than 1,300 members in 47 states and in a variety of countries including, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Holland, Germany, Hungary, Argentina, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Poland, South Korea, and Sweden. The ADS cooperates with The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) by accepting and forwarding registrations for new daffodil cultivars from hybridizers and registrants in the United States.

Internet Resources The American Daffodil Society (ADS) is committed to providing a wide range of daffodil information sources using the Internet. To this end, the ADS maintains and hosts four daffodil websites on ADS owned computer servers, the main ADS web site: daffodilusa, the discussion forum: DaffNet, the free online library: DaffLibrary and the Daffodil Photo Database: DaffSeek. These servers are located in a commercial data-center in the United States. The ADS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, educational, charitable organization supported by memberships.