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TWILIGHT MEETING 



Wednesday, September 1 1 



Murray Farms Greenhouse 



River Road 



Penacook, NH 



The third Twilight IVIeeting of the year will be at Murray Farms 

 Greenhouse in Penacook. It's been nearly four years 

 since the New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association has 

 been the guests of Murray Farms Greenhouse and now there 

 are four years of change and improvement to see. 



The most spectacular change is their new wood chip gas- 

 ification heating system (they load it with wood chips only 

 once a weekl, but other aspects are equally interesting: 

 trough watering for 1020 trays, a Wadsworth environmental 

 control system, a new mum irrigation system, poinsettias in 

 production, and much, much more. 



The meeting begins around 5:30. There will be a tour; 

 refreshments will be served. 



For information, contact Dave Murray at 603-753-6781. 



DIRECTIONS: 



Take Exit 15 West off 1-93 to Rte 3 North; Go 3.2 miles 



(past state prison) to Bog road on your left. Go 2.2 miles on 



Bog Road to a four-way intersection. Go right onto River 



Road. Murray Farms is 1/2 mile on the right. 



About the Cover 



Prudence (detail) 



Engraving based on design 



by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) 



In sixteenth-century Belgium and Holland, 

 Prudence was regarded as the first and most 

 important among the cardinal, or non theological, 

 virtues. It was not merely caution or circumspec- 

 tion; it was wisdom, good sense, "foresight in the 

 service of virtue." 



Prudence herself stands surrounded by objects 

 symbolizing aspects of this virtue: the ladder and 

 buckets (obviously fire-fighting apparatus: the 

 prudent person quenches any conflagrations of 

 passion before damage occurs), the colander 

 (for sifting good from evil), the mirror (self- 

 knowledge), the coffin. 



The virtue of foresight — an aspect of 

 Prudence — is illustrated by the women preparing 

 meats and other foods for storage; the great 

 wooden tubs, when packed, will go into the 

 cellar; behind the women, a man hoists twigs into 

 the barn to serve as fuel during winter. Farther 

 back, a group of men repair a house, prudently 

 providing against its fall. And still closer to the 

 horizon, men repair a dike so that it may not 

 crumble and let in the ever-threatening sea. 



To the left of Prudence, a man pours coins into 

 a chest for safekeeping. This is not Avarice, but 

 Sense — precaution in protecting one's rightful 

 possessions. 



In New England, Prudence seems appropriate 

 to early fall, when the first actions are taken to 

 temper the effects of winter. (B.P.) 



NH PLANT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 

 The Plantsman Editor 

 UNH Research Greenhouses 

 Durham, NH 03824 



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