CALENDAR 



ONTENTS 



JUNE 21 Maine Landscape & Nursery 

 Association Twilight Meeting (North), 

 The Growing Concern, Orono; for 

 information: Claire Ackroyd at 

 (207) 866-3448. 



JUNE 23 UMflss Turfgrass Field Day, 

 South Deerfield Farm; Rich Cooper 

 at (413) 545-2353. 



JUNE 24-25 Sixth Annual Pocket 

 Gardens of Portsmouth Tour, 

 Portsmouth, NH; information: 

 (603) 743-5260. 



JUNE 25 New Hampshire Rose Society 

 Annual Show. Barton Hall, UNH, 

 Durham, NH; for information: Bill 

 Prince at (603) 868-9610. 



JUNE 26 FTD Dis(nV( 1-C Meeting, 

 Rye, NH; information: Ray Savage 

 at (603) 352-1155. 



JUNE 26 New Hampshire Landscape 

 Association-sponsored Tour of Tower Hill 

 Botanical Garden. Boylston, MA; con- 

 tact Guy Hodgdon (1-800-639-5601) 

 before July 1. 



]uly 



JULY 9-13 \nternational Floriculture 

 Industry Short Course, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio; for more: (614) 487-1117. 



JULY 12-15 AAN Convention, Balti- 

 more, MD; (202) 789-2900. 



JULY 14-16 MANTS, Baltimore, MD; 

 (301) 256-6474. 



JULY 26-28 PANTS, King of Prussia, 

 PA; (717) 238-1673. 



JULY 13-14 New England Ag Expo, 

 Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Tunbridge 

 VT; for information: 1-800-653-2700. 



JULY 20 Connecticut Nurserymen's 

 Association Summer Meeting, co-spon- 

 sored by Young's Nursery and 

 Planter's Choice Nursery, Newtown, 

 CN; for information: (203) 872-2095. 



August 



AUGUST 4 Massachusetts 

 Nurserymen's Association Summer 

 Meeting, hosted by Bigelow 

 Nurseries, Boylston, MA; 

 information: (508) 534-1775. 



AUGUST 5-7 Professional Plant 

 Growers Association's Geranium Special 

 Interest Group Seminar/Tour, Seattle, 

 WA; information: 1-800-647-PPGA. 



AUGUST 10 Third Annual Athletic 

 Turf Management Field Day, College 

 of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; 



information: Mary Owen at (508) 

 892-0382. 



AUGUST 10 NENA Summer Meet- 

 ing, Aqua Turf, Southington, CT; 

 for information: (617) 431-1595. 



r^ AUGUST 17 NHPGA Summer 

 ^ Meeting, Ledgewood Farm, 

 Moulton-boro, NH; co-hosted by 

 Spider Web Gardens, Center 

 Tuftonboro; for information: Chris 

 Robarge at (603) 862-1074. 



AUGUST 17 Rhode Island Nursery- 

 men's Association Summer Meeting, 

 Blithewood, Bristol, RI; for 

 information: (508) 761-9260. 



AUGUST 20 Plant Sale, Hay Estate, 

 Route 103-A, Newbury, NH; 

 information: Ann Loeffler at (603) 

 526-4153. 



AUGUST 24 Vermont Plant Growers' 

 Summer Meeting, Stowe, VT; infor- 

 mation: Tina Nyce at (802) 899- 

 3361. 



AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 3 

 Professiona/ Plant Growers Association 

 (PPGA) Technical Tour of Denmark, 

 for information: 1-800-647-PPGA. 



September 



r^ SEPTEMBER 14 NHPGA 

 ^ Twilight Meeting, 5:30-7:30, 

 Gateway Gardens, 430 Loudon 

 Road, Concord, NH; for informa- 

 tion: Kirl< Weyant and Sue 

 Englund at (603) 229-0655. 



SEPTEMBER 16-OCTOBER 1 

 Eastern Slates' Big '£,' West 

 Springfield, MA. 



SEPTEMBER 17 Florel Garden Mum 

 "Workshop, Konjoian's Greenhouses, 

 Andover, MA: information: Peter 

 Konjoian at (508) 683-0692. 



SEPTEMBER 22-27 llth Interna- 

 tional PPGA Conference and Trade 

 Show, Buffalo, NY; for more: 

 1-800-647-PPGA. 



October 



OCTOBER 17-19 New England 

 Greenhouse Conference, Sheraton 

 Sturbridge Inn, Sturbridge, MA; 

 for information: Henry Huntington 

 at (603) 435-8361. 



November 



NOVEMBER 12 Rhode Island 

 Nurserymen's Association 75th Birthday 

 Celebration, Doubletree Inn, 

 Newport, RI; for information: 

 (508) 761-9260. 



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