FORUM 



SUB)ECT: Program Status, 

 FY 1995 SBA Tree 

 Planting Program 



"We regret to inform you that on 

 April 1, 1995, the Congress passed 

 House Bill 889, a bill mailing supple- 

 mental appropriations for the De- 

 partment of Defense and rescission 

 in DOD and other programs. Unfortu- 

 nately, the bill included a rescission 

 of all Fiscal Year 1995 SBA Tree 

 Planting funds. 



"This means you will not be able 

 to make tree planting grants in 1995. 



"We appreciate your interest and 

 support in the SBA Tree Planting 

 Program in the past. Should funds 

 be authorized for this purpose in fu- 

 ture years, we will let you know." 



Sincerely yours, 



)ohn E. Sargent, Director 



Department of Resources and 

 Economic Development 



Division of Forests and Lands 



1/V^ELCOME 

 KEW MEMBERS 



ATLANTIC GREENHOUSE SYSTEMS 



PO Box 96 



Searsmont, ME 04973 



GLENN CAREY 



1 1 1 West First Avenue, Apartment 5 



Columbus, Ohio 43201 



HEATH ENTERPRISES 



RFD 1 



Littleton, NH 03561 



LES SERRES ROSAIRE PION & FILS 



171 Grand Rang 



Saint-Thomas d'Aquin 



Ouebec |OH 2AO 



NEW ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL 

 STATISTICS SERVICE 



PO Box 1444 

 Concord, NH 03302 



SUNFLOWER INDUSTRIES 



206 South Main Street 



Wolfboro, NH 03894 



THE TWILIGHT MEETING 

 AT ALLGRO: 



Thanks Go To... 



The rains had stopped, but cloud 

 and grey light gave a surreal tone to 

 the windowless widely-spaced build- 

 ings and mountains of compost set 

 down on the rolling cleanly-mowed 

 landscape Inside a small tent. New 

 Hampshire Plant Growers Association 

 members and friends enjoyed sand- 

 wiches and soda before a tour of the 

 AllGro facility in Rochester. 



Jeff LeBlanc, our host, talked 

 about AllGro's uses and the quirks 

 of marketing (the South Shore pre- 

 fers dark mulch — the darker the bet- 

 ter; the North Shore likes it light — 

 hemlock is used there), then showed 

 us around. The process is unexpect- 

 edly simple and the scale is large 

 (15 bays, but small compared to the 

 Palm Beach facility of 40) — both 

 need to be seen to be understood 

 clearly 



We thank )eff and other members 

 of the AllGro staff for their hospital- 

 ity — and also for the AllGro Compost 

 hats (a choice of forest green or 

 white) and coffee mugs (forest green 

 only) — an example of good market- 

 ing as well as of good design. 



Board Highlights 



MARCH 6 



The following people have volun- 

 teered to do the following: 

 Tammy Hathaway will do public- 

 ity — meeting notices to other 

 publications, occasional articles to 

 local newspapers — for the NHPGA; 

 )eff Huntington will represent the 

 NHPGA at the New England Nurs- 

 ery Certification Council; Bob 

 Rimol, on the New Hampshire 

 Agricultural Marketing Council; Ann 

 Hilton, at Agriculture in the Class- 

 room; and Henry Huntington, at 

 the New Hampshire Horticulture 

 Society. 



APRIL 3 



Bob Demers announced that six 

 speakers had been secured for 

 the NHPGA Pesticide Applicator 

 Recertification Meeting on October 

 18 This means six credits can be 

 offered, rather than the previously 

 planned five. Participants will be 

 able to attend a three-credit 

 morning or afternoon session if 

 they can't be there the whole day. 

 Other details are being worked 

 out 



Classified 



FOR SALE: 150-gallon sprayer, excellent trailer — pump and motor 

 haven't been used in two years. Asking $200.00. for details: H.W. 

 Parker, Parker's Tree Farm, Greenland, NH; phone 603-436-0478. 



SITUATION WANTED: 1 am currently a senior at Ohio State University 

 majoring in floriculture with a minor in Agricultural Business & Applied 

 Economics. I received an Associate of Arts degree from UNH and will 

 be graduating with a BS degree from OSU in )une, 1995. I plan to 

 move back to NH and am currently seeking employment in southern NH 

 in either greenhouse production or in an assistant management position 

 in a garden center. If interested, please call Glenn Carey at 

 614-294-8347 or e-mail me at carey.72@osu.edu. 



PLANT MATERIAL REQUEST: Nurseryman in Oregon looking for Acer 

 pensiflvanicum 'Erythrocladum' specimen tree. If you can assist, call col- 

 lect Bill Moss at 503-233-9233. 



Ihe Planlsman 



