NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



FFA— Fall Results 



The FFA Fall Horticulture con- 

 test was held on Saturday, Octo- 

 ber 31, 1992, at the Thompson 

 School Greenhouses at UNH, 

 Durham. This annual event is 

 designed to give beginning horti- 

 culture students contest experi- 

 ence and generate interest in the 

 subject. 



Alvirne, Pembroke, and 

 Manchester were present for the 

 competition which included a 

 written test, nursery judging, 

 repotting of plants, woody plant 

 identification, and floriculture 

 plant I.D. Ben Nadeau, Wendy 

 Gendrin, and John Daily of 

 Alvirne took first place with a 

 close race between Pembroke and 

 Manchester for second and third 

 respectively. 



Thanks go to Dana Sansom 

 and Rene Gingras of the Thomp- 

 son School and Maria 

 VanderWoude, FFA Executive Sec- 

 retary, for successfully organizing 

 this year's competition. 



Show Time, 1993 



The Farm & Forest Exposition 

 Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary 

 on February 4-6 at the Center of 

 New Hampshire Holiday Inn and 

 Convention Center in Manches- 

 ter. Its theme is 'Celebrating 

 Ten Years — Looking Back and 

 Reaching Forward.' The tradi- 



tions evolved over these years re- 

 main: there's an Awards Breakfast 

 on Friday morning, at which, 

 among other things, the "Tree 

 Farmer of the Year" is an- 

 nounced. Friday night is again 

 family night. 4-H members will 

 lead hands-on demonstrations in 

 which children can make things 

 like natural bird feeders (peanut 

 butter in pine cones) and fish 

 prints. 



On Saturday, people from the 

 Cooperative Extension will lead 

 hands-on demonstrations for 

 adults. Topics include chain saw 

 safety and house plant care. The 

 auction begins at 12:30 in the af- 

 ternoon. 



The Awards Breakfast is $8.50, 

 but the exhibition is free. So 

 come help celebrate ten years of 

 showcasing New Hampshire agri- 

 culture. 



A little over a month later, three 

 other New Hampshire exhibitions 

 follow in quick succession: on 

 March ll-14,the Seventh Annual 

 Seacoast Area Flower and Garden 

 Show will return to last year's lo- 

 cation, the Recreation Center at 

 Pease Air Force Base in 

 Newington. The theme will be 

 'Gardens by the Sea.' 



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 Then the Third Annual Land- 

 scape Exposition, sponsored by 

 the New Hampshire Landscape 



Association, will be held on 

 March 15-17 at the Center of 

 New Hampshire Holiday Inn &. 

 Convention Center in Manches- 

 ter. This third edition includes 

 "trade show, educational lectures, 

 hospitality areas, raffles, Pearson 

 awards, pesticide recertification 

 credits, and an expanded exhibit 

 viewing time." 



And the annual UNH Greenhouse 

 Open House, sponsored by the 

 Plant Biology Department and the 

 Thompson School of Applied Sci- 

 ence, will be held April 2-3 at 

 the Greenhouses on Mast Road in 

 Durham. The theme here is "Bi- 

 ology in Action,-" events are tra- 

 ditional: talks and exhibits on the 

 biology side; plant displays and 

 sales in the Thompson School. 

 There will be plenty of experts 

 there to answer questions. 



And looking ahead — the Interna- 

 tional Lilac Society meets in Spo- 

 kane on May 13-15, 1993. This 

 is the furthest west it has ever 

 met. But in 1994, it returns 

 east — to the University of New 

 Hampshire in Durham. It will 

 meet there June 9-11, 1994, dur- 

 ing the time the late lilacs are in 

 bloom. The program will include 

 "speeches, tours and demonstra- 

 tions." For more information, 

 contact Owen Rogers at (603) 

 862-3222. »*• 



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