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CGGA's First Executive 

 Director 



The Connecticut Greenhouse Grow- 

 ers' Association (CGGA) is pleased 

 to announce the appointment of its 

 first Executive Director, Robert V. 

 Heffeman. 



Mr. Heffernan began his duties 

 August 1, 1993, and has established 

 an office for the Association in iVlon- 

 roe, Connecticut. 



The CGGA, which is only two 

 years old, now has over 110 mem- 

 bers, it provides educational, infor- 

 mational, and governmental repre- 

 sentation services to the growers. 



Mr. Heffernan holds a BA in Jour- 

 nalism from The American Univer- 

 sity in Washington and has served 

 seven years on the staff of the 

 United States Senate Committee on 

 Governmental Affairs, also in Wash- 

 ington. He is a registered lobbyist 

 in Hartford and will continue in his 

 other role as Executive Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the Connecticut Florists' As- 

 sociation. 



CGGA's new office address is PO 

 Box 415, Botsford, CT 06404. The 

 phone number is (203) 261-9067; fax 

 is (203) 261-5429. 



What's Wrong 

 with My Tree? 



(from The Dirt, Summer, 1993) 



Nina Bassuk, Plant Physiologist and 

 Director of the Urban Horticulture 

 Institute at Cornell University, will 

 be the principal speaker at the 

 'What's Wrong with My Tree' Work- 

 shop at V.T.C. in Randolph, Ver- 

 mont on November 19. 



"Dr. Bassuk is known for her work 

 intergrading the biological needs of 

 trees with innovative design solu- 

 tions. Her talk with cover topics 

 such as site assessment, plant se- 

 lection, site modifications, trans- 

 planting techniques, and the identi- 

 fication of abiotic and stress fac- 

 tors." 



The workshop is sponsored by 

 the VT Plantsmen's Association in 



co-operation with the Department 

 of Agriculture, Foods and Markets, 

 the UVM Extension System, and the 

 VT Urban and Community Forest 

 Program. For information, call Scott 

 Pfister at (802) 244-7048. 



Garden Dedication 



After a year of hard work, the land- 

 scaping of the Cooperative Exten- 

 sion Building at URI, Kingston, was 

 dedicated on September 19. A 

 100th birthday gift to URI from the 

 Rhode Island Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion, the material emphasizes the 

 easily maintained and stress-toler- 

 ant. The project was supervised by 

 Dr. Richard Casagrande, director of 

 the Low-lmput Sustainable Agricul- 

 ture (LISA) Program at URI. The 

 gardens are open to the public and 

 brochures describing the material 

 used will be available. 



Strategies for Tomorrow 



A Business Short Course, "Strategies 

 for Tomorrow's Business Climate," 

 will be held November 9-10 at the 

 Marriot in Worcester, MA. Co-spon- 

 sored by UMass Cooperative Exten- 

 sion and the Massachusetts Nurs- 

 eryman's Association, this two-day 

 course "will give managers and staff 

 of landscape, garden ceater and 

 nursery businesses the important 

 information needed to prepare for 

 tomorrow's business climate." 



The first day's speakers include 

 Carol Felix and Wayne Dickson, 

 owners of Dickson Felix, Inc., and 

 founders of the Alexis Group, an or- 

 ganization of the leading garden 

 centers in America (their topics: the 

 market of today and how to com- 

 municate with your customers), and 

 Dr. Charies D. Schewe (customers of 

 the future and dealing with aging 

 America). Other topics include fu- 

 ture designs of garden centers, mar- 

 keting 1PM Health Care to your cus- 

 tomers, and analyzing the costs of 

 individual crops. 



The second day of workshops 



will deal with assessing the impact 

 of mass merchandisers on the 

 Green Industry (followed by a panel 

 discussion), plants of the future, 

 your best customer, your most prof- 

 itable customer, and an economic 

 assessment of the future of busi- 

 ness in New England. 



The cost is $60.00 per day (this 

 includes a manual, lunch, and cof- 

 fee); registration deadline is No- 

 vember 1; for information: Kathleen 

 Carroll at (413) 545-0895. 



Up-to-Date Quarantine 

 Information 



"AAN (American Association of 

 Nurserymen) has joined with the 

 National Plant Board and USDA to 

 publish Federal & Slate Quarantine 

 Summaries. The goals of this project 

 are two: to facilitate industry com- 

 pliance with quarantine and ship- 

 ping requirements and to minimize 

 the spread of harmful plant pests 

 on nursery crops." 



This book outlines the domestic 

 certification and quarantine require- 

 ments enforced by the USDA's Ani- 

 mal and Plant Health Inspection 

 Service, and by all 50 states and 

 Puerto Rico. 



Each state summary lists the rel- 

 evant plant health agency and con- 

 tact information, definition of nurs- 

 ery stock, general shipping require- 

 ments, and quarantines or other 

 specific certification requirements 

 that apply to shipment into that 

 state. 



The manual is available exclu- 

 sively from AAN. It's $22.50 for mem- 

 bers and $27.50 for non-members. 

 For information, call (202)789-2900. 



Organic Wholesalers 



The 1994 National Directory of Organic 

 VJfiolesalers is now in production and 

 will be released in February, 1994 

 Farmers and other wholesalers can 

 be included in this directory by 

 calling 1-800-852-3832. (Some 1993 

 directories are still available.) 



October & November 1993 

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