Exciting MAJOR event coming! The North American Lily Society
is holding its annual convention in Chicagoland! This is a rare opportunity, if
you live anywhere close. You can also visit the NALS website for further
details and registration information.

http://nals2016.lilies.org/

NORTH AMERICAN LILY SOCIETY

TO HOLD 2016 SHOW/CONVENTION

"SATURDAY
IN THE PARK"

AT BOTANIC GARDEN JULY 6-10

The North American Lily Society will hold
its 69th Annual Show and Convention, "Saturday in the Park," at the ChicagoBotanic Garden on July 6-10, with
receptions and dinners at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago-Deerfield on Lake-Cook
Road, just East of I-294, the Tri-State Tollway.
Rooms are also available for those wishing to stay.

Best way to learn all the details is by
checking NALS' website, which gives all the details of who and what will occur,
and when and where it will happen.

Be sure to attend to see hundreds of lily
stems and attend their lectures and tours. Lecture/classes will be held at the
Botanic Garden, along with tours of their research facilities and a special
tour of rare books at the Garden's library, with a focus on those about lilies.

Most of the lecture/classes repeated in
four different blocks, allowing our local Society members as well as the
general public to pick and choose. Judicious selection will allow you to attend
all of them, without missing a single one.

Lecture/classes include:

• Dr. Johnny Randall of the North
  CarolinaBotanic Garden
  will speak about Sandhills lilies, Lilium
  pyrophilum.
• Brent Heath, of Brent & Becky's Bulbs, will give
  two different presentations: first, Lovely Long-Lasting Lilies and Awesome
  Alliums, and second, Bulbs as
  Companion Plants.
• Franc Officer of North Star Lily Society will give
  tips and techniques for lily photography, and weather permitting, a photo
  tour of the garden. Bring your camera.
• Kathy Anderson of Pennsylvania
  will lead a judges' panel, talking about what's new in the lily judging
  world.
• Brian Bergman of the Ontario Lily Society will talk
  about lilies for gardening and hybridizing.
• Dave Maltby, also of the Ontario Lily Society, will
  discuss the Eastern hybrids in North America.
• Warren Summers of Michigan will also give a talk
  about lily hybridizing North America.
• Art Evans of Arkansas will give a presentation about Rhizoctonia, a new and deadly
  fungus that is invading North American lily gardens.
• Kathleen Hoxie of Virginia and our own Bill Hessel
  will give a demonstration of floral arrangements featuring lilies.
• The ChicagoBotanic Garden's Library will
  conduct a special tour of its rare books, featuring those on genus lilium.