The ASHS Board of Directors conducted the Annual ASHS Capitol Hill visits on April 24, visiting 21 House and Senate offices, and meeting with members and key staff.

The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) invites all Graduate Students focusing on horticulture to take advantage of a free one-year Graduate Student Membership in ASHS including a complimentary online subscription to an ASHS journal of your choice!

Signing up is easy:

http://ashs.org/gradstudentmembers/add.lasso

The ASHS Board of Directors is well aware that today’s graduate students are the future members and officers of the Society. They, too, were once graduate students and never imagined at the time they would be leading the world’s premier horticultural science society. The Board and the entire ASHS membership wants to share all the Society has to offer with those who are the future of horticulture and the Society—you—today’s Graduate Students. In addition to your membership in ASHS, you will receive:

• Electronic access to the ASHS Newsletter, the monthly member publication of ASHS that is full of news about the Society, research, horticulturists, meetings, resources, and jobs in horticulture.
• A complimentary electronic subscription to your choice of the three ASHS journals. You may choose the Journal of ASHS, HortScience, or HortTechnology, and will receive full online access to all current issues and the full archives.
• Full access to the Members Only section of the ASHS web site. You’ll have full access to the ASHS Video Workshop Series, including HortEducator and the Video Biographies section, with more than 80 video interviews of notable horticulturists of the 20th Century.

And of course you will have all the other member benefits that come with ASHS—reduced subscription prices to the other journals, reduced registration for the ASHS Annual Conference, and perhaps most important, the interaction opportunities with the thousands of other members of ASHS—no better way to network and make contacts for your future in horticulture.

“But wait . . . I just joined ASHS as a Graduate Student a couple of months ago.”

No worries . . . . If you joined ASHS on or after June 1, 2012, your membership will be extended for an additional 12 months! And you will be contacted as to which journal you want to subscribe to.

If you have any questions, please contact Executive Director Michael Neff ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), and he’ll be happy to answer you.

ASHS Board Member-At-Large Mike Arnold makes the formal HortLandmark presentation to Center’s Executive Director Patrick Griffith.

Photo: Montgomery Botanical Center.

The Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) was named the newest ASHS ­Horticultural Landmark in a ceremony held August 4, 2012, at the center’s grounds in Coral Gables, Florida. The Award was presented to the MBC’s Executive Director Patrick Griffith by ASHS Board Member Mike Arnold, past Horticultural Landmark Selection Committee chair George Fitzpatrick, and ASHS Executive Director Mike Neff.

This year’s election of officers for the ASHS Board of Directors by the ASHS Membership places Mary Meyer as President-elect, Sandra Wilson as Education Division Vice President-elect, Jeff Olsen as International Division Vice President-elect, and Patricia Knight as Research Division Vice President-elect.

Young researchers focusing on horticultural crops were honored this year for their outstanding research at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in Pittsburgh, PA, May 13–18. ASHS judges Xuri Zhang (team leader, Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood, PA), Jozsef Racsko (OARDC, Ohio State Univ., Wooster), and Lee Stivers (Penn State Extension, Washington, PA) reviewed 70 finalists in Plant Science at this year’s fair.