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Welcome, 



New 

 Members! 



THE COUNTRY BEAR FLORIST 



GREENHOUSE & NURSERY 



1517 Meadow Street 



Littleton, NH 03561 



VIRGINIA HAST 



UNH Cooperative Extension 



327 Daniel Webster Highway 



Boscawen, NH 03303 



HUBBARD FARMS 



GREENHOUSE 



107 Windsor Road 



Hillsboro, NH 03244 



SERENITY BONSAI 



RR2, Box 328 

 Rumney, NH 03266 



Understanding New 

 Hampshire's Electric 

 Industry 



Bob Rimol 



Dependable electricity is something 

 most of us take for granted, yet its 

 costs are high and the inability to 

 regulate costs yields frustration for 

 business owners in the horticulture 

 industry and other New Hampshire 

 industries. New Hampshire is cur- 

 rently in the process of restructuring 

 the electric utility system and as 

 plans advance for this restructuring, 

 it is important to understand how 

 the industry currently works and 

 how it will change. 



Basically, our current electric sys- 

 tem involves three stages: genera- 

 tion, transmission, and distribution. 

 Electricity is first generated by using 

 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, 

 or the force of water. This electricity 

 is then transmitted over high-volt- 

 age wires to distribution centers. 

 Here, the voltage is "stepped down" 



Horticulture by Night 



This is a partial list of evening courses offered this summer at the UNH 

 Thompson School The summer session runs in five- and ten-week mod- 

 ules from May 28 through August 2, 1996. Tuition is $146.00 per credit. 



HT205: Introduction to VJoody Plants. May 28-August 2. W 4-8pm. 2 cr. Instructor: 

 Dana Sansom. 



HT236: Pest Management: Diseases. May 28-june 28. TTh 5:30-8:30pm. 2 cr. 

 Instructor: Cheryl Smith. 



HT237: Pesf Management: Weeds. May 28-|une 28 M 5:30-8:30 pm. 1 cr. 

 Instructor: Rene Gingras. 



HT238: Pesf Management: Insects, luly 1 -August 2. TTh 5:30-8:30pm. 1 cr. Gingras. 



HT239: Pest Management: Control Applications. July 1 -August 2. M 5:30-8:30PM. 

 1 cr. Gingras. 



HT254/PBI0454: Landscape Construction & Mflinte«flMce. May 28-August 2. 

 MW 5-9pm. 4 cr. Instructor: Michael Sheffield. 



You can enroll in these by phoning the Division of Continuing Education at 

 603-862-2015. For information on the part-time Associates Degree program or 

 the Diploma in Landscape Horticulture, call 603-862-3115. Additional horti- 

 culture courses are offered at UNH in the Department of Plant Biology. 



and carried over distribution lines 

 throughout each utility's service area 

 to customers. 



In the past, most utilities owned 

 their generation plants, transmission 

 lines, and distribution wires and 

 electric prices for production, trans- 

 mission, and distribution were 

 "bundled" together. Although some 

 utilities like Unitil have moved to 

 market-based purchases of produc- 

 tion and transmission, electric ser- 

 vices to customers — and prices — 

 have remained "bundled". 



In contrast, restructuring the elec- 

 tric industry will involve "unbun- 

 dling" electric costs, thereby sepa- 

 rating the costs of generating and 

 delivering electricity. Customers will 

 be allowed to choose their electric- 

 ity suppliers from among the com- 

 peting utilities and independent 

 supply companies. Suppliers will 

 have open access to the transmis- 

 sion system's high-voltage wires car- 

 rying electricity to distribution cen- 

 ters, where utilities will continue to 

 be regulated as local distribution 

 companies. Customers will be able 

 to choose the prices and services 

 they want, without losing the reli- 

 ability of their service. In addition 



CLASSIFIED 



We are a wholesale greenhouse 

 looking for an experienced grower 

 interested in producing both florist 

 quality potted crops for local sales 

 and young plants for national distri- 

 bution. Our growth has made it 

 necessary to search for someone 

 with solid knowledge in technical 

 growing. The candidate must be 

 able to understand lab results and 

 make recommendations based on 

 these. Our two acres of both poly 

 and Dutch glass houses are state- 

 of-the-art, along with our goal of 

 quality production. Please send re- 

 sume, with references, to: 



Mr. Douglas S. Cole, President 

 D.S. Cole Growers, inc. 

 251 North Village Road 



Loudon, New Hampshire 03301 



JUNE -t- lULV 1996 



