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AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter
A Lett
tter from our Director
Martha Seaman
Recently, some of us have returned
from the 2000 AHS Convention
in Philadelphia and the Region
Two 2000 Annual Meeting in
Chicago. Both of these were wonderful
meetings – beautiful gardens,
which would be difficult to see at
other times – interesting speakers,
fascinating workshops, and, best of
by Martha Seaman
all, the renewal of old friendships.
You see many of the same people at
these yearly meetings and, I suspect,
it’s because once you’ve attended
one, it becomes something
you want to do again. Those of us
who are in the habit of going to
these annual events, eagerly look
forward to them.
I’m surprised that more AHS members
don’t take advantage of these
“If you haven’t tried one of
these annual AHS meetings,
you’re missing something very
special!”
Martha Seaman
“mini vacations.” They are easy to
fit into a busy schedule since they
are mostly on weekends; they are
relatively inexpensive, considering
what you receive; and they give
pleasure that lasts all year.
If you haven’t tried one of these
annual AHS meetings, you’re missing
something very special!
Jill Yost 2000
Looking ahead at the
National Convention Calendar
AHS Daylily
Dictionary is On-line
by AHS Publications Committee Chair
Melanie Mason
AHS is proud to introduce a new
chapter to its already wonderful
web site, the new DAYLILY DICTIO-
NARY. If you have access to the
internet, do yourself a favor and pull
up the AHS web site,
http://www.daylilies.org.
On the right side, you’ll find written
in red, “New Feature: Daylily
Dictionary.” Clicking on those
words in red color opens the forward
link to the dictionary.Then, click on
the words “Go to Terms Page” in the
black bar at the top. Here’s a list of
all those odd-ball words that daylily
fanatics exchange in elevators
at conventions and in the back seat
on the way to meetings that you
may have been too shy to ask about.
The Dictionary offers entries from “Alkaloid”
to “Zygote,” and it works much
like consulting an encyclopedia, showing
drawings or images to illustrate the
meaning of the selected term. Within
the text pages, embedded links may
lead the reader to other terms or associated
articles.
Perhaps you’d heard “tarnished
plant bug” being bandied about as
a possible cause of Spring Sickness;
perhaps you’d heard someone discussing
the veining of a particular
flower, or perhaps you just wondered
about the difference between
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2001 ........... New England Daylily Society, Boston, MA ............................ July 18-22 ............... 2001
2002 ........... Southern Michigan Hemerocallis Society, Troy, MI ................. July 17-20 ............... 2002
2003 ........... Mid-Carolina Daylily Society, Charlotte, NC .......................... June 18-21 .............. 2003
2004 ........... The Greater St. Louis Hemerocallis Society, St. Louis, MO ............. June 30-July 3 .......... 2004
2005 ........... Pensacola Hemerocallis Society, Pensacola, FL ....................... May 18-21 .............. 2005
2006 ........... Long Island DS, Long Island, NY ........................................ July 13-16 ............... 2006
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