BAR HARBOR – Mary Opdyke, chairwoman of the Nell Goff Scholarship Committee of the Bar Harbor Garden Club – St. Croix District, hopes that all college students on break will take notice of the availability of two scholarships for legal Maine residents.

The Garden Club Federation of Maine Scholarship is in the amount of $2,500 and the Nell Goff Memorial Scholarship is $1,000. The application deadline for each is March 1.

Various fields of interest are covered. Students majoring in, or planning to major in, horticulture, floriculture, landscape design, conservation, forestry, botany, agronomy, plant pathology, environmental control, city planning and/or other related fields are eligible.

The Goff Scholarship is open to college juniors, seniors or graduate students. College sophomores are eligible for the GCFM scholarship as they will enter their junior year the following fall.

Students must be Maine residents. The applicants will be judged on academic record, vocational potential, vocational interests, character and financial need.

Applications can be obtained by writing Mary I. Ericson, GCFM Scholarship chairwoman, 515 Little River Rd., Lebanon, ME 04027, also e-mail, [email protected]. The applications for the Goff Scholarships are available by writing Mary B. Opdyke, P.O. Box 44, Salisbury Cove, ME 04672, e-mail [email protected] There also is information on the Web at www.scholarships.com.