tion on which ads work and where 

 customers live {many come from 

 fairly long distances — Littleton, Bow, 

 Concord, Conway). She adds these 

 names to a growing mailing list 



She has long-term, steady, en- 

 thusiastic help. Lillian Kimball has 

 worked part-time here for eight 

 years. Another woman, Karen 

 Lamarre, a recent graduate of Dela- 

 ware Valley College in Philadelphia, 

 will begin full-time in 1998. 



PEOPLE IN THE NORTH COUNTRY 

 often "wear many hats," and 

 Priscilla wears several. She whole- 

 sales to an outlet in Plymouth. She 

 sells dried arrangements made from 

 materials she grows and gathers 

 herself. After Columbus Day, she 

 shuts down, but reopens after 

 Thanksgiving, when, for four days a 

 week, she sells cut-your-own Christ- 

 mas trees from a neighbor's lot 

 across the street. The owners live 

 in Connecticut — they plant and 

 maintain the trees; The Green 

 Thumb sells them and gives the 



owners a percentage of the money 

 made. Customers bring saws and 

 can cut any tree for $15.00; in the 

 shop, garlands and wreaths are 

 made and sold. The business 

 closes for the winter the week be- 

 fore Christmas 



It should be said that the land- 

 scape — although the components 

 were there — didn't "just happen." 

 The nursery/greenhouse is one of 

 several interconnected family enter- 

 prises. Alden (who worked as a me- 

 chanic at the local |ohn Deere deal- 

 ership before beginning the land- 

 scaping side of things) and two 

 sons run a landscape installation 

 and maintenance business. Clinton 

 (who once planned to study ac- 

 counting at Northeastern), is a part- 

 ner and does design work and 

 oversees crews Scott has chosen 

 not to be a partner — he's foreman 

 on the commercial jobs; his busy 

 season is winter, when he grooms 

 for Loon Mountain and runs his 

 own snow removal business. They 

 have the equipment — tractors, 



bucket loaders, a hydroseeder — 

 with which to do fairly large jobs. 

 Although the entire family genu- 

 inely loves the outdoors and "the 

 natural," they have unsentimentally 

 shaped this arcadian landscape. 



Growth has always been intuitive — 

 one aspect leading into another The 

 Browns recently acquired the adjoin- 

 ing eleven acres — to be used for 

 bagged goods, equipment storage, 

 and parking. (Clinton admits "our traf- 

 fic flow is non-existent... it's some- 

 thing that needs to be worked on."| 

 That will be next year's project. ..along 

 with a natural garden, a fern garden, 

 a new drip watering system for 1000 

 mums... 



'We had no idea what this would 

 turn into when we started," Priscilla 

 says. What it would turn into? It's 

 hard to tell— The Green Thumb of 

 North Haverhill seems to have just 

 begun. (BP) 



The Green Thumb is on Route 116 in 

 North Haverfiili The phone number 

 there is 603-787-6022. 



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Remember to Provide 

 Adequate Combustion Air 



The cold weather is here and In order to 

 keep out the blasts of Old Man Winter, we 

 shut our windows and doors and drape plastic 

 over the fans and shutter openings. But waltl 

 Now that we're all snug and warm, we've cre- 

 ated another problem — your gas or oil furnace 

 Inside the greenhouse needs a steady flow of 

 combustion air. This air supply must come from 

 outside the greenhouse. In order to do this, you 

 must allow one square Inch of free area per 

 1000 BTUH of Input. For example. If you have a 

 Modlne PAE 125 gas unit, you would need to 

 create an opening of Il''xl2' to provide ad- 

 equate combustion air. 



Only with the proper air supply will your 

 heater run at peak efficiency and return the 

 most heat from the fuel that you purchase. 



OCTOBER & NOVEMBER 1997 



