NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



Rhodo City 



A campaign has begun to give an 

 old mill town a new identity. 

 Newmarket, New Hampshire, is to 

 become "Rhododendron City." 



The Main Street Program, a local 

 non-profit association of volunteers, 

 is organizing the planting of rhodo- 

 dendrons throughout the town. 

 Plans were drawn up for each public 

 property and for private and busi- 

 ness properties asking assistance. 



This year the group bought 240 

 rhododendrons — all types hardy to 

 this area — from a Connecticut 

 nursery. They sold them to busi- 

 nesses and private individuals and 

 donated others for planting on 

 town properties. 



A spring festival — the Newmarket 

 Rhododendron Arts and Music 

 Festival, on May 22 — was orga- 

 nized to coincide with the planting. 



Illustration: Michall Diev 



The planting at the library was 

 delayed until the site was evaluated 

 ("deteriorating lawn areas, dying 

 and overgrown ornamentals and 

 trees, materials ill-suited to hiding 

 outside air conditioning equip- 

 ment), a landscape modification 

 plan outlined, and a new landscape 

 created by designer Marilyn 

 Benson approved by library trust- 

 ees. The library sits alone on a 

 hill, but originally held books for 

 the employees of a large mill. 

 When the mill was torn down, the 



owners gave the building to the 

 town. One reason plants do not 

 do terribly well there is that under 

 the library lawn is the cement road 

 that connected various parts of the 

 mill complex. Gene Novak, one of 

 the volunteers involved, has con- 

 tacted an army reserve unit, an en- 

 gineer battalion, headquartered in 

 Londonderry to see if it would be 

 willing to remove the cement. 



Once that is done (perhaps this 

 fall), soil can be brought in and a 

 healthier planting begun. The 

 town has promised to furnish an 

 irrigation system. 



And after that.' The Main Street 

 Project plans to facilitate more 

 plantings next year. There's no fi- 

 nal goal. Just more and more 

 rhododendrons blossoming each 

 spring. 



For information. Gene Novak 

 can be reached at 603-659-6652. 



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