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New Hampshire News 



Plant Inspection Fees 



The Division of Plant Industry of 

 the New Hampshire Department of Ag- 

 riculture has been providing a plant in- 

 spection and certification service for 

 NH plant growers and plant dealers for 

 over 72 years without charges of any 

 kind. Times have changed, and it is in- 

 creasingly more expensive to provide 

 these services without cost. Division 

 personnel travel long distances from 

 one end of the state to the other, and at 

 present generate no income for the state. 

 The legislature has decreed that we 

 must charge fees for services provided. 



There will be a license fee and an 

 inspection fee. Plant dealers, nursery- 

 men, agents and brokers will be as- 

 signed a permanent license number. 

 Licenses must be renewed yearly. In- 

 spection fees will be levied at the time 

 of actual inspection. The amount of the 

 fee will be determined by the number 

 of acres of nursery stock there are and/ 

 or the number of square feet of green- 

 house space devoted to culture of plants. 

 The schedule of fees to be charged will 

 be published in the market bulletin as 

 soon as changes to the rules have been 

 finalized. Anyone with questions re- 

 garding this subject should contact Dr. 



Siegfried E. Thewke, Director, Divi- 

 sion of Plant Industry, NH Dept. of 

 Agriculture, 27 1 -256 1 . f 



-Siegfried E. Thewke, 

 Slate Entomologist 



Windham Nurseries — 

 Under New Old 

 Management 



Windham Nurseries, located at 

 Exit 3 on Route 93 in Windham, New 

 Hampshire, reopened earlier this year 

 under the ownership of its previous 

 owner, Joe Delihunty. Joe says the game 

 plan is to continue to run a full-fledged 

 nursery and garden center and flower 

 shop. No expansion is currently 

 planned. 



There is also a gift shop of selected 

 items; field-grown annuals and peren- 

 nials are available. Windham is affili- 

 ated with Service Star, a supplier of 

 fertilizer, garden tools, accessories and 

 other items. Tony DiBello is General 

 Manager. 



Windham Nurseries is open six days 

 a week from 8-6 and on Sundays from 

 8-5. "Things are going well," says De- 

 lihunty. "This time we're here to stay." $ 



New Hampshire 

 Shows, 1991 



"It's never too early to think Spring, 

 199 J I" xhat's what Seacoast area land- 

 scapers, fiorists, nursery people, and 

 staff at Portsmouth Visiting Nurses are 

 saying these days. 



The Fifth Annual Seacoast Area 

 Flower and Landscape Show is sched- 

 uledforMarch 15-17, 1991, and will be 

 held at the National Guard Armory in 

 Portsmouth. The 1991 show will run 

 three days instead of the previous two 

 and there will be more exhibits and 

 displays as well as a larger retail area. 



For further information, please call 

 Brenda Schure at the Portsmouth Visit 

 ing Nurse's Association at 603-436- 

 0971. 



The Granite State Garden & Flower 

 Show is scheduled to be held at the 

 Canal Street National Guard Armory in 

 Manchester on March 6- 10, 1 99 1 . March 

 4-5 are the set-up days; March 1 1 is the 

 breakdown day. 



For general information, contact 

 Ginny Grand Pre' at 603-446-7325 

 (work) or 446-7866 (home). For infor- 

 mation about booths, contact John 

 Jacobs at Mr. Bee's.^ 



National News 



AmeriFloro '92 



AmeriFlora '92 is an International 

 Floral and Garden Exposition being 

 held in Columbus, Ohio (the largest 

 city in the world to bear the name of 

 Christopher Columbus), from April 3 

 through October 12, 1992. It is sanc- 

 tioned by the President's 1992 Com- 

 mission — theU.S.ChristopherColum- 

 bus Quincentenary Jubilee Commis- 

 sion — as the premier United states 

 event commemorating the quincenten- 

 nial. 



AmeriFlora is the first interna- 

 tional Floral and Garden Exposition 

 ever to be held in the United States. It 

 will consist of two main events: a 17- 



day, 90,000 square-foot indoor inter- 

 national floriculture and garden design 

 competition and a 160-acre outdoor 

 festival of landscape and floral design. 

 This second part includes entertain- 

 ment, the world's cuisine, science and 

 technology, the world's most magnifi- 

 cent conservatory... and a little magic. 



As many as forty nations are ex- 

 pected to participate — Italy, Canada, 

 England, the Bahamas, and the Do- 

 minican Republic have already regis- 

 tered. More than three million Ameri- 

 cans will visit the exposition and more 

 than 160,000visitorsareexpectedfrom 

 abroad. 



AmeriFlora '92 is sanctioned by 

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the International Association of Horti- 

 culture Producers (AIPH) , which is 

 recognized by the Bureau of Interna- 

 tional Expositions as the sanctioning 

 body for international horticultural 

 expositions. 4 



Bachelor of Technology 

 Program at Cobleskill 



The College of Agriculture and 

 Technology at Cobleskill State Uni- 

 versity of New York, Cobleskill, New 

 York has recently enhanced its degree 

 offerings with the development of 

 Bachelor of Technology degree pro- 

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