Welcome, New Members! 



Deborah Carpenter 

 118 East Deering Road 

 Deering, NH 03244 



GCS Sales & Marketing 

 572 Gibbons Highway 

 Wilton, NH 03086 



Susan Gere 



17 Severance Street, #2 



Claremont, NH 03743 



Greenside Up 

 PO Box 447 

 Greenland, NH 03840 



Judith Reeve Landscape Design 

 14 North Balch Street 

 Hanover, NH 03755 



Lawrence Greenhouse 

 200 Richmond Street 

 Winchester, NH 03470 



Perennial Design Landscape 

 425 Tibbetts Hill Road 

 Goffstown, NH 03045 



Smith Farm 

 3 Gibson Road 

 Hudson, NH 03051 



Sullivan Greenhouse 



RFD 2, Box 661, Route 135 



Lancaster, NH 03584 



Yankee Kingdom Orchard 



2769 Lake Street 



West Addison, VT 05491 



Endowment Update 



Peter van Berkum 



People who got to the Summer 

 Meeting saw the second act of 

 "The Airplane Skit." Yes, we're 

 still trying to land, but getting 

 closer all the time, with over 

 $85,000 pledged. The donations 

 are coming in fast now. We're ex- 

 cited to announce that we will 

 make our first grant in November, 

 1999. We've worked out a sched- 

 ule: universities and research in- 

 stitutions will be notified by next 

 June about the availability of 

 funds; grant applications will be 

 received by September. 



We've been asked by people 

 who've pledged if they will be re- 

 minded of when the next install- 

 ment of their contribution is due. 

 We will be sending out reminders 



next month. Starting next year, 

 reminders will be sent in June. 



So keep watching. The research 

 will be starting and the rewards of 

 our labor will soon be visible. 



(For those wishing to contrib- 

 ute, checks made out to New 

 Hampshire Horticultural Endow- 

 ment can be sent to New Hamp- 

 shire Horticultural Endowment, 

 7316 Pleasant Street, Loudon, NH 

 03301. For more information, con- 

 tact Peter van Berkum at 603-463- 

 7663 or Henry Huntington at 603- 

 435-8361). 



Activities for Customers — 

 and You 



It's useful to promote garden-re- 

 lated programs and activities. 

 These can create interests that in- 

 crease sales. But promotion doesn't 

 always need to be cold-blooded. 

 Sometimes learning is enough. 

 Sometimes you might be interested 

 in learning too. 



Tower Hill Botanic Garden, PO 

 Box 598, Boylston, Massachusetts 

 01505-0598, offers programs year- 

 round — usually on evenings or 

 Saturdays. Late October activities 

 include a field trip to the Arnold 

 Arboretum and Mount Auburn 

 Cemetery, two hours of trail-blaz- 

 ing, a seminar on "putting the 

 garden to bed," and an evening 

 of "beer tasting and evaluation" 

 ("fifteen different styles, along 

 with foods that are complimented 

 by each, plus appropriate vessels 

 and serving temperatures"). Dou- 

 glas Williams, Program Coordina- 

 tor, can be reached at 508-869- 

 6111, extension 21 or 24. 



The Urban Forestry Center, 45 

 Elwyn Road, Portsmouth, New 

 Hampshire, is — after a brief si- 

 lence — once again offering talks — 

 usually on Thursday evenings — 

 and field trips throughout the 

 year. Topics usually concern (not 

 surprisingly) forests and trees. 

 November's talks include Mary 

 Tebo, community forest coordina- 



New Hampshire 



Horticulture 

 Endowment 



the seed of a great 

 idea is growing into 

 a reality! 



tor with UNH Cooperative Exten- 

 sion, speaking on caring for com- 

 munity trees (November 12) and, 

 a week later, Kevin Smith, a plant 

 physiologist with the US Forest 

 Service, discussing causes of de- 

 cay. For more, the center's phone 

 number is 603-431-6774. 



Tliank You, Tammy 



After several years of service, 

 Tammy Hathaway has decided to 

 leave the NHPGA Board. Besides 

 helping in other, more general, 

 areas, Tammy was in charge of 

 publicity, sending news releases 

 about our activities to other pub- 

 lications. Her good sense and 

 consistency will be missed and 

 we hope she will continue to par- 

 ticipate (maybe even volunteering 

 occasionally) in the various events 

 she once wrote about. 



For Repeated Viewings... 



Thanks to Faye Cragin, computer 

 specialist, and Nancy Adams, Co- 

 operative Extension, selections 

 from T]\e Plantsnmn are on a NHPGA 

 page on the UNH Cooperative 

 Extension WEB site. The address 

 of the Ornamental Horticulture 

 Publications section of this site is 

 <http:/ /ceinfo. unh.edu/ 

 hortpubs.htm>. 



OCTOBER. NOVEMBER. 1998 



