To that end, the ADS publishes quarterly The Daffodil Journal, a 64-page magazine that covers all aspects of daffodil culture, breeding, and exhibition. The ADS cooperates with The Royal Horticultural Society by accepting and forwarding registrations for new daffodil cultivars from American registrants. The ADS publishes several books that list and describe registered daffodil cultivars, including Daffodils to Show and Grow, which is updated approximately every four years, and The Tom D. Throckmorton Daffodil Data Bank, which is updated annually.
Dues are payable in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank.
Organized activity in the growing and showing of daffodils until then was confined to the Maryland Daffodil Society, the garden club of Virginia, and the Washington Daffodil Society. More than 400 responses were received and turned over to these groups to proceed with the details of creating a national society. A call went out to those who had expressed their interest to attend an organizational meeting to be held at Chevy Chase, Maryland, on April 9, 1954. On that occasion, the Society was voted into existence and temporary officers elected. The organization of the Society was completed on January 22.