NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



Horticulture by Night 



Beginning in May, college-credit 

 courses for the green industry will 

 be available in the evening at The 

 University of New Hampshire. The 

 horticulture program at the Univer- 

 sity's Thompson School of Applied 

 Science will offer courses in plant 

 health care, identification, and 

 landscaping. 



This program--"Horticulture by 

 Night"--is an effort to reach out to 

 those in the industry who find it dif- 

 ficult or impossible to attend classes 

 during regular business hours. 



\ntroduction (o Woody Plant Materials 

 (Wednesday, 4-8 pm| is a freshman- 

 level course on identification and 

 use of trees, shrubs, vines, and 

 groundcovers of New England, with 

 emphasis on native plants Materi- 

 als are introduced in mature land- 

 scape settings on the university 

 campus. 



Landscape Construction and Mainte- 

 nance (Monday and Wednesday, 

 5-9 pm) covers the latest materials 

 and techniques of construction, in- 

 stallation, and maintenance. This 

 hands-on course includes work on 

 actual projects in the field and nu- 

 merous tours of landscape sites and 

 companies. 



Two five-week courses in plant 

 health care, Pest Management: Diseases 

 and Pest Management: insects (Tuesday 

 and Thursday, 5:30-8:30 pm), will 

 cover field identification, symptoms, 

 life cycles, and control alternatives 

 for these plant pests. Problem pre- 

 vention through healthy culture of 

 plants is stressed. 



This summer's "Horticulture by 

 Night" is a pilot program to assess 

 evening demand for the hands-on 

 courses of the Thompson School. 

 Additional evening courses will be 

 offered in the Fall, 1995, semester 

 These include \nterior Plants and 

 Plantscaping, Bedding Plant Production, 

 and Flower Shop Management. Other 

 courses will be "block-scheduled " to 

 increase accessibility. 



The UNH 1995 Summer Session 

 begins on May 30. Catalogs are 



AMERICAN INDIAN DESIGN DEPICTING 

 CLOUDS, RAIN, AND LIGHTNING. 



available from the Division of Con- 

 tinuing Education (603-862-2015). 

 You may enroll by phone at the 

 same number. For information on 

 course content, call the horticulture 

 program at 862-1035. For a free copy 

 of the Thompson School catalog, or 

 for information on full-time or 

 part-time degree programs, call 

 Emily Tousant at 862-3115. 



Citizens Advisory Panel 

 Schedules Hearings 



(from Weekly Market Bulletin. 

 February 22) 



Effective August, 1994, the NH legis- 

 lature passed HB 1512-FN creating a 

 citizens' advisory committee to ad- 

 vise the Pesticide Control Board on 

 matters of public concern with pesti- 

 cides. 



The committee is composed of 

 representatives of the following: 

 UNH Cooperative Extension, chair- 

 person; a town health officer, 

 Audubon Society of NH; NH Farm 

 Bureau Federation; NH Environmen- 

 tal Educators Association; NH Asso- 

 ciation of Conservation Commissions; 

 Natural Organic Farmers Association; 

 Society for the Protection of NH For- 

 ests; and the Division of Public 

 Health Services; there is also one 

 public member appointed by the 

 Governor. 



The duties of the committee are 

 (1) to hold at least four regional 

 hearings per year to provide the 

 public a chance to express concerns 

 to the committee and (2) to convey 

 these concerns and recommenda- 

 tions to the Pesticide Control Board, 

 the House Agriculture and Environ- 

 ment Committee, and the Senate 

 Environment Committee. 



People who would like to attend 

 one of these meetings may attend 

 one of the following (all begin at 

 7pm): 



April 19 UNH Cooperative Extension 

 Coos County Office, 

 Lancaster; 



April 20 Rockingham County Nurs- 

 ing home, Hilton Audito- 

 rium, Brentwood; 



May 3 Health & Human Services 

 Building Auditorium, Hazen 

 Drive, Concord; 



May 17 Keene State College Sci- 

 ence Center, Waltz Lecture 

 Hall, Room 1 10, Keene 

 For information, contact Stan 



Swier, Department of Entomology, 



Nesmith Hall, UNH, Durham 03824; 



phone-603-862-1159 



SBA Tree Planting 

 Grants Announced 



On January 11, the US Small Busi- 

 ness Administration and the State of 

 New Hampshire announced that 13 

 cities and towns will be receiving 

 funds for SBA tree planting projects 

 for the spring of 1995 These communi- 

 ties are: Bartlett, Bradford, Concord, 

 Conway, Durham, Littleton, Manches- 

 ter, Meredith, New Boston, Orford, 

 Pelham, Portsmouth, and Raymond 



Under the Natural Resources Devel- 

 opment Program, an amendment to 

 the Small Business Act, federal funds 

 for tree planting on state or local gov- 

 ernment land are made available 

 to states which agree to match at 

 least 25% of the grant. Based on the 

 state's population, the Fiscal Year 1994 

 grant to New Hampshire was $77,349. 

 The 13 communities whose applica- 

 tions were approved have together 

 pledged matching funds of $67,598, 

 creating a total of nearly $145,000 for 

 tree-planting projects. 



The program requires the use of 

 small businesses as contractors and 

 businesses interested should contact 

 local governments directly 



(The SBA is providing a fifth year 

 of tree-planting funds; New Hamp- 

 shire's FY 1995 grant is $60,601; ap- 

 plication deadline for local munici- 

 palities was February 27; for more: 

 Mary Reynolds at 603-271-2214.) 



