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NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



ASSOCIATION OFFICERS 



President 



BOB DEMERS, JR. 



Demers Nursery & Garden Center 



656 South Mammoth Road 



Manchester, NH 03103 



625-8298 



Secretatry I Treasurer 



CHRISTOPHER ROBARGE 



UNRTSAS 



Horticultural Facilities Manager 



Durham, NH 03824 



862-1074 



Directors 



ANDREA CAPRON 



Box 332 



Center Ossipee, NH 03814 



539-6030 



HENRY HUNTINGTON 



Pleasant View Gardens 



RFD#3, PO Box 3701 



PIttsfleld, NH 03263 



435-8361 



BEN SHAMBAUGH 



Wayside Farm 



North Sandwich, NH 03259 



284-6886 



PETER VAN BERKUM 



4 lames Road 



Deeifleld, NH 03037 



463-7663 



ROGER WARREN 



Box 318 



Meriden, NH 03770 



469-3226 (H); 448-61 10 (W» 



RICHARD ZOERB 



Gloeckner & Company, Inc. 



72 Hawfcstead Hollow 



Nashua, NH 03063 



886-8665 



Compensation may be of interest 

 to readers. House Bill 1508 "de- 

 clares that an employer with no 

 workers' compensation claims for 

 two years and a good safety record 

 shall not be charged a premium for 

 being part of the assigned risk 

 pool. This bill also establishes a 

 workers' compensation rate study." 

 Senate Bill 546 "limits attorneys' 

 fees on lump sum payments under 

 workers' compensation to eight 

 percent of the lump sum. If 

 passed, members could experience 

 a sizeable savings on workers' com- 



pensation premiums" (both de- 

 scriptions from NFIB Bulletin). 



For more information, contact 

 Bill Stockman, Spider Web Gar- 

 dens, at (603) 569-5056 or Joan 

 LaPlante, National Federation of In- 

 dependent Business/New Hamp- 

 shire, 4 Park Street, Suite 216, Con- 

 cord, NH 03301, at (603) 228-3477. 



Showtime '94 



The "New Look" succeeded — the 

 1994 Farm & Forest Exposition held 

 in Manchester on February 3-5 was 

 described as "the busiest, the most 

 successful ever." Attendance was 

 up, meeting rooms were filled to 

 overflowing, and exhibitors are 

 signing up for next year. 



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So public interest is lively. With 

 that in mind, one looks forward to 

 the New Hampshire Orchid Society 

 Show at the Bedford Mall on April 

 29-May first. Although smaller than 

 Farm & Forest and more special- 

 ized, there's plenty for everyone — 

 orchid enthusiast to curious shop- 

 per — to see. There'll be at least 

 30 orchid displays; the fifteen ven- 

 dors signed up at the end of Feb- 

 ruary include Carol Woodin, an art- 

 ist who does botanical illustrations 

 for the American Orchid Society, 

 who'll be displaying and selling her 

 watercolors. Two local growers. 

 Sawyer's (Grafton, NH) and Moun- 

 tain Orchids (Ludlow, VT), will be 

 both showing and selling; a repre- 

 sentative from Siam Orchids, the 

 American branch (based in Texas) 

 of Udam Orchids of Bangkok, Thai- 



land, will be there as well, judging 

 and a preview party with hors 

 d'oeuvres and maybe music (7 pm; 

 $15 per person) are on the 28th. 

 On Saturday, April 30, WFAE will 

 be broadcasting live from the show 

 for six hours, interspersing its mu- 

 sic with interviews of both exhibi- 

 tors and visitors. Plants and cut 

 flowers will be for sale; there'll be 

 door prizes, audiovisual presenta- 

 tions, talks and demonstrations by 

 FTD, Teleflora, and members of the 

 various societies exhibiting.. .it 

 sounds like quite a time. For more: 

 loanna Eckstrom at (603) 654-5070. 



For those who like a more low-key 

 afternoon, the New Hampshire 

 Rose Society will hold its annual 

 Summer Show at Barton Hall at 

 UNH in Durham on iune 25. Basi- 

 cally, any amateur rose grower is 

 welcome to bring a blossom he's 

 grown to Barton Hall between 

 seven and ten in the morning — 

 tables and vases are provided; 

 judging (by judges from as far away 

 as Connecticut and New York) 

 takes place from 1 1 until one; the 

 show is open to the public from 

 one until four. Cut flowers and min- 

 iature rose bushes are for sale. 

 For details: Bill Prince at (603) 868- 

 9610. 



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"It is with deepest regret," a 

 January 27 memorandum from 

 the Portsmouth Regional Visiting 

 Nurses Association said, "that we 

 inform you that the Eight Annual 

 Seacoast Area Flower and Land- 

 scape Show scheduled for March, 

 1994, has been canceled." 



It seems illogical, but in a region 

 with a sizable tourism industry, as 

 well as a large number of vacant 

 commercial properties, no suitable 

 exhibition space was found. 



However, a meeting has been 

 called "to see where we go from 

 here." For information, contact 

 Brenda Schure at (603)436-0815. ^ 



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The Plantiman 



