The Summer Meeting — A Brief Report 



Maybe it was the perfect 

 weather that deceived 

 my senses, but every- 

 thing looked great. 

 , The Greenery in 

 i Ossipee and Spider 

 Web Gardens in 

 Tuftonboro were spectacularly in flower 

 under cloudless skies. 



The meeting was heldatThe Green- 

 ery. Members toured the houses and 

 grounds and the manager, Bruce 

 Holmes, was there showing people 

 around and pointing out some of the 

 more special aspects. A trade show of 

 twenty-eight exhibitors was set up be- 

 tween the nursery stock and the peren- 

 nials. Around ten, a bus load of visitors 

 went to Spider Web Gardens, where the 

 owner. Bill Stockman, gave a vigorous 

 tour. 



Back in Ossipee, under the tent at 

 the Famous Chicken Barbeque, the 



Commissioner of Agriculture was in- 

 troduced and spoke a few words. 



In the afternoon, another group of 

 members went off to visit Spider Web 

 while others chatted with friends or 

 talked to the various exhibitors. 



The day ended with the door prize 

 drawings. The Knowltons of 

 Hampstead, NH, did very well. Carleen 

 Knowlton won the first prize - a week- 

 end for two at Waterville Valley, while 

 Walter won the third, a pair of tickets to 

 a Red Sox game. Jennifer Thomann of 

 Needham, Mass., won the second place 

 prize, also a pair of tickets for a Red Sox 

 game. 



So now it's time to circle the date 

 for the winter meeting (January 17 at 

 the Margate in Lebanon) and to begin 

 thinking about where next summer's 

 meeting will be held. Any suggestions? 



The Board of Directors would like 

 to thank The Greenery for its hospital- 



ity. It would also like to thank the fol- 

 lowing exhibitors for their support at 

 our Summer Meeting: 



B.E. Supply, Dale Chapman Nursery- 

 man, Charter Oak Landscape Inc., 

 Dragon Products Co., Fisons Horticul- 

 ture Inc., IV Seasons Marketing, Gold 

 Star Wholesale Nursery, Griffin Green- 

 house & Nursery Supply, Hamois In- 

 dustries, The Charles Hart Seed Co., 

 Knuttel Nursery, Ledgewood Farm 

 Greenhouses, Liberty International 

 Truck, McHutchinson & Co., R.D. 

 MacMiliian Co., Millane Nurseries, 

 Northeast Nursery Inc., Orchard Equip- 

 ment & Supply Co., Resource Conser- 

 vation Services, Rough Brothers, 

 Syracuse Pottery Inc., Taurus Business 

 Supply, Vaughan Seed Co., Vermeer 

 Sales & Services, The Von Trapp Nurs- 

 ery ,Westem Maine Nurseries, Weston 

 Nurseries, Winding Brook Turf Farm^ 



New Credit Card... 



With yearly expenditures on gar- 

 dening exceeding $16 billion, special- 

 interest products are certain to show up. 

 One of these is a Gardener's Visa Card, 

 new this season from The Massachu- 

 setts Co. Inc. of Boston. 



"This new card, which is aestheti- 

 cally very pleasing, should captivate 

 the hearts of true garden lovers," says 

 Ellen R. Ensenfeld, vice president of 

 marketing of TMC. 



One of the advantages of card 

 ownership is discounts from gardening 

 supply firms such as Stokes Seeds, Inc. 

 of Buffalo, NY and Gardener's Supply 

 Co. of Burlington, VT. Card users re- 

 ceive a gardening newsletter. Free seed 

 samplesare included with monthly state- 

 ments. 



For more information, contact 

 TMC, P.O. Box 1340, Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts 02104; 1-800-842-1 8 13.4i 



New EPA Approval 



Citation, a new insect growth regu- 



lator insecticide from Ciba-Geigy, re- 

 ceived EPA label approval for control- 

 ling leafminers on greenhouse-grown 

 potted chrysanthemums. Citation con- 

 trols leafminers by preventing pupae 

 from becoming adults.^k 



Pro-Polyester 



Some pesticides are known to be 

 tenacious in the environment, having 

 long lives in water, air, plants, and ani- 

 mals including humans. Now a Cornell 

 microanalysis study has shown that 

 some pesticides may be retained on 

 fabrics after clothes are laundered. 



The study, carried out by S. Key 

 Obendorf and Camille M. Solbrig, used 

 a 50/50 cotton-polyester blend (typical 

 of shirts worn by agricultural workers) 

 contaminated with malalhion and 

 methyl parathion. One laundering re- 

 moved 60 to 70 per cent of both pesti- 

 cides by cleaning the surfaces of the 

 fibers, but it had little effect on pesticide 

 concentrations inside the cotton fibers. 

 In contrast, no pesticides were found 

 inside the polyester fibers. 



Pesticides are readily absorbed into 

 the body through the skin and can cause 

 systemic poisoning and a variety of ill- 

 nesses. 



What this study suggests is that 

 polyester c iothes are m uch safer to wear 

 during a spraying job than 1 00% cotton 

 clothes because polyester fibers do not 

 absorb pesticides and can be washed 

 more easily. 



-From The Grower Newsletter, June/ 

 July 1990. 



Tips From The Griffin Guru... 

 Your Account is On C.O.D. 



Nobody wants to be on CO. D. It's 

 just another stumbling block in the road 

 to commerce. 



Today's world is ruled or at least 

 organized by computers. That message 

 typed on the bottom of your bank state- 

 ment or utility bill is most likely Ung- 

 gered by a preprogrammed machine. 



When there is a reason for you to 

 break your normal pattern of payments, 

 communicate. Remember- wc value 

 your business. 



