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■¥•«■« WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14 

 NHPGA Twilight Meeting, Demers 

 Nursery & Garden Center, 656 

 South Mammoth Road, Manchester, 

 NH; information: Bob Demers, )r., 

 at 603-625-8298. 



JUNE 16-17 Seventh Annual Garden 

 Tour of 'Pocket Gardens of Portsmouth,' 

 sponsored by South Church, 

 292 State Street, Portsmouth, NH; 

 information: Pat DeGrandpre at 

 603-431-7899 or Beth Fischer at 

 603-868-2458. 



|UNE 18 "A Day in the Garden"— a 

 NH Rose Society fundraiser; Lowe's 

 Own Root Roses, Nashua, NH; 

 information: Mike Lowe at 

 603-888-2214. 



JUNE 24 NH Rose Society Annual 

 Show, Barton Hall, UNH, Durham, 

 NH; information: Dave Jordan at 

 603-437-0306. 



JUNE 27 FTDA Evening Seminar — 

 'Controlling Expenses,' Nashua, NH; for 

 details: Debra Defreze at 603-474- 

 3020. 



]uly 



JULY 12 Connecticut Nurserymen's 

 Association Summer Meeting, Summer 

 Hill Nursery, Madison, CT; informa- 

 tion: 203-872-2095. 



JULY 15 Granite State Landscape Ar- 

 chitects/Boston Society of Landscape Ar- 

 chitects ]oint Meeting, Strawbery 

 Banke, Portsmouth, NH; for infor- 

 mation: Bill Hoffman at 603-735- 

 5827. 



JULY 15-16 The Second Annual Sea- 

 coast Garden Trail; information: Beth 

 Simpson at 603-436-2732. 



JULY 19 Massachusetts Nursery & 

 Landscape Association IMNLA) Summer 

 Meeting, Stanley Park, Westfield, 

 MA; 508-534-1775. 



August 



AUGUST 18-21 AAN Nursery Mam- 

 agement Iwstitute, MSU, Lansing, Ml; 

 Joel Albizo at 202-789-2900. 



■•«"« FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 New 

 Hampshire Plant Growers Association 

 Suwmer Meeting, Pleasant View Gar- 

 dens, Pittsfield, NH; information: 



Henry Huntington at 603-435-8361. 



AUGUST 4-6 The 1995 ProfessioHfl/ 

 Plant Growers AssocidfioH (PPGA) Gera- 

 nium SIG Seminar, Pleasant View 

 Gardens, Pittsfield, NH; information: 

 1-800-647-7742 



AUGUST 5-6 Mount "Washington Valley 

 Garden Trail, information: Margo Ellis 

 at 603-367-8587. 



AUGUST 7 MflssflcAusetts Certified 

 Horticulturist (MCH| Exam, 9am at 

 Eastern Region Cooperative Exten- 

 sion Center, Waltham, MA; informa- 

 tion: 508-534-1775. 



AUGUST 8 Twilight Meeting, 

 Woodman Farm, UNH, Durham, NH; 

 information: John McLean at 

 603-868-2345. 



AUGUST 9 NENA/RINA Joint Summer 

 Meeting, Tuckahoe Turf Farm, Rich- 

 mond, Rl; information: Ken 

 Lagerquist at 508-761-9260. 



AUGUST 11-13 Northeast Organic 

 Farming Association (NOFA) 21st An- 

 nua/ Summer Conference, Hampshire 

 College, Amherst, MA; for informa- 

 tion (before 9 pm, please), Amy 

 Wales or Mark Allman at 413-623- 

 2355 or Julie Rawson or lack 

 Kittredge at 508-355-2853. 



AUGUST 19 Fourth Annual Plant Sale 

 & Rare Plant Auction, Hay Estate, 

 Newbury, NH; information: Ann 

 Loeffler at 603-526-4153 or Mary 

 Williams at 603-526-4719. 



AUGUST 23 Vermont Association of 

 Professional Horticu/tunsts (VAPH) 

 Summer Meeting, information: Jane 

 Wilkening at 802-899-3361. 



AUGUST 24 Griffin GreenAouse & 

 Nursery Supplies 8th Biennial Open 

 House, 1619 Main Street, Tewksbury, 

 MA; information: 508-851-4346. 



September 



SEPTEMBER 15-16 New England Plas- 

 tic Culture Seminar, Portsmouth/ 

 Durham, NH; Otho Wells at 603-862- 

 3208 



■«■»'* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 

 NHPGA Twilight Meeting, Rolling 

 Green Nursery, Greenland, NH; 

 information: Rick & Beth Simpson 

 at 603-436-2732. 



DEPARTMENTS 



FORUM 



NH NEWS 



ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS 



MEMBER PROFILE 



Webbers Dublin Nursery 



15 



DIAGNOSTIC UPDATE 



Dr. Cheryl Smith 



FEATURES 



Where Do New Plants 

 Come From? 



Dr. Owen M. Rogers 



28 



II 



Practical Scoutimg Techniques 13 



Mike Cherim 



Granite State Landscape 

 Architects: Alive & Well 



]ohn Hart 



20 



Living Birdfeeders 



David Eastman 



COLUMNS 



THE GRIFFIN GURU 



23 



14 



Z-NOTES 



Jim Zablocki 



19 



HOW ABOUT HERBS 



Tanya \ackson 



25 



Cover: Illustration from Geraniums, Second Edition, edited by John W. 

 Mastalerz, published by Pennsylvania Flowers Growers, 1971. 



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 April, |une, August, October, and December 

 with copy deadlines being the first of each 

 prior month. While camera-ready ads are pre- 

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For further Information, please contact the 

 editor: Robert Parker at the UNH Research 

 Greenhouses, Durham, NH 03824, 603-862- 

 2061 : or PC Box 5, Newflelds, NH 03856, 603- 

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June & July 1995 



