LILY SHOW 1000 Entries
Expected
More than 1000 entries were expected for the annual show of the New Zealand Lily Society, which will open in the Horticultural Hall on Tuesday, said the president (Mr W. Baynon). An exceptionally good showing was expected this year because of increased membership. The society, he said, led the world in lily hybridising. Of the society’s 800 members some 500 lived in Canterbury. The others, said Mr Baynon, lived in South Africa, Australia, and IronCurtain countries such as Russia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Iron-Curtain members of the society frequently exchanged lily seeds with Christchurch members. This helped to improve lily strains. The show will close at 9 p.m. on Wednesday. A bus-load of Dunedin lily enthusiasts, many of them members of the society, will come to Christchurch to see the show and to visit leading Christchurch lily gardens. To increase the variety of the lily exhibits, some 200 stems have been kept in cool store for as long as three weeks.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31262, 7 January 1967, Page 10
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166LILY SHOW 1000 Entries Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31262, 7 January 1967, Page 10
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