

CALENDAR 



June 



18-19 (Friday: 5-8pm; 

 Saturday: 9am-2pm) 

 Eleventh Annual 

 Pocket Gardens of 

 Portsmouth Tour, 

 sponsored by South 

 Church, 292 State 

 Street, Portsmouth, 

 NH; 603-436-4762 



'e 24 New Hampshire 

 Plant Growers Asso- 

 ciation Twilight Meeting/Garden 

 Center Evaluation Workshop, 

 Spider Web Gardens, Center 

 Tuftonboro, NH; Ann Hilton at 

 603-435-6425, workshop informa- 

 tion: Dave Seavey at 603-225-5505 



26 "Hay Day" — a family day at 

 The Fells, John Hay National 

 Wildlife Refuge, Newbury, NH; 

 603-763-4789 



27 Rose Society Show, Nashua 

 Mall, Nashua, NH; 603-673-0754 



July 



10-14 Ohio Florists' Association 



Short Course, Columbus, OH; 



614-487-1117 



14 Connecticut Nurserymen's 



Association Summer Meeting, 



Burnett's Landscaping and Salem 



Country Gardens, Salem, CT; 



203-445-0110 



15-16 Coastal Maine Botanical 



Gardens: "Hidden Treasures of 



the Boothbay Peninsular," 



10am-4pm; 207-633-4333 



21 Massachusetts Nursery and 



Landscape Association Summer 



Meeting, Forest Park, Springfield, 



MA; 413-369-4731 



21 "Cruise into Lake Sunapee's 

 Past," 4:30-6:30pm, Sunapee 

 Harbor; information and reserva- 

 tions: Friends of John Hay National 

 Wildlife Refuge at 763-4789 



22 Open House, W.H. Minkowski, 

 Inc., 10 Middle River Road, Stafford 



Springs, CT; 1-800- 

 243-7170 



August 



e 4 New Hampshire 

 Plant Growers' 

 Association Summer 

 Meeting, Pleasant 

 View Gardens Pembroke 

 Facility, Pembroke, 

 NH; information: 

 Robert Demers at 

 603-625-8298 



1 1 New England Nursery Associa- 

 tion and Rhode Island Nursery 

 and Landscape Association Joint 

 Summer Meeting, The Glen Park, 

 Portsmouth RI; 508-653-3112 



13 Benefit Auction, The Fells, 

 John Hay Memorial Wildlife Ref- 

 uge, Newbury, NH; 763-4789 



14 Eighth Annual Plant Sale, 

 The Fells, Newbury, NH; 763-4789 



15 Annual Open Farm Day — 

 Rockingham and Strafford Counties; 

 for participating farms, map, sched- 

 ule of events: UNH Cooperative 

 Extension Rockingham County 

 (603-679-5616) or Strafford County 

 (603-749-4445) 



18 Vermont Association of Pro- 

 fessional Horticulturists (VAPH) 

 Summer Meeting, Vergennes, VT; 

 802-865-5979 



20 Maine Landscape and Nursery 

 Association (MeLNA) fifth annual 

 Horticultural Field Day, Rogers 

 Farm, Orono, ME; 207-225-3998 

 25 Open House, Griffin Green- 

 house and Nursery Supply, 1619 

 Main Street, Tewksbury, MA; 

 978-851-4346 



September 



15-18 Forty-ninth Annual Meet- 

 ing of the Eastern Region of the 

 International Plant Propagators' 

 Society, Minneapolis Airport 

 Marriott, Minneapolis, MN; Margot 

 Bridgen at 860-429-6818. 



CONTENTS 



Departments 



3 FROM THE BOARD 



5 FORUM 



7 NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



13 ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS 

 Features 



19 Jack-in-the-Pulpit 



Nancy Surene 

 20 MEMBER PROFILE 

 Maple Leaf Gardens 



22 Harvesting Peonies for a Lasting 

 Cut Flower 

 Karen Cast 



24 Sitting in the Shade 

 Jeff Warschauer 



Columns 



10 KIWI CORNER 

 Paul Fisher 



14 PIONEER POINTERS 

 16 THE GREEN SPOT 



Mike Cherim 

 26 Diagnostic Update 



Cheryl Smith 

 28 Z NOTES 



Jim Zablocki 



28 HOW ABOUT HERBS 



Tanya Jackson 

 Credits 



Cover: Pleasant View's Pembroke 

 Facility, photo by Rick Raymond; 

 this page: "...faces carved in the apple 

 trees," 1999 Breath of Spring Flower 

 Show, Keene, photo by Steve Curtin 



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