Members of the Western Nursery Growers Group (WNGG) will tour Montreal and Quebec City with their WNGG Montreal-Quebec City Summer Tour, August 9 to 11.

     The tour agenda includes visits to the rose breeding program at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research station L’Acadie, the office and grounds of the Institut Québécois du Développement de l’Horticuture Ornementale (IQDHO), and local Montreal and Quebec City area nurseries and landmarks. Participants will also have the option to spend a day touring Old Quebec City or visit the Centre de Production de Plants Forestiers due Quebec (CPPFQ) and view its container-grown conifers, from budding to finished size.

     Registration is $175. The May 31 registration deadline had passed by the time this issue of Landscape Trades went to press, however, contact tour coordinators Michel Touchette, tel. 204-857-5288, fax 204-857-2877; Ken Riske, tel. 780-469-8733, fax 780-465-5328; or Christine Murray, tel. 403-362-1313, fax 403-362-1306.

     Registrations can be sent (with cheques payable to Western Nursery Growers Group), c/o Jim Anderson, WNGG treasurer, Byland’s Nurseries, 1600 Byland Rd., Hwy 97S, Kelowna, BC V1Z 1H6.