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[Suzi Teghtmeyer <srt175f@smsu.edu>]

Hi Rodney,
Might I recommend the following sites to begin searching before you try the 
full WWW?

To search for Agriculture Experiment/Extension Station publications, try:
E-Answers - http://128.227.242.197/
and
PlantFacts (Click on "web" and you can separately search for factsheets and 
for teaching/research publications. You can also look for images and videos 
at this site) - http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu/

For the following fruits, try these AgNIC sites:
American Cranberry - 
http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/agnic/cranberry/cranhome.html
Blueberries-Cultivated - http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/iac/agnic/blueberry.html
Blueberries-Wild - http://www.nsac.ns.ca/wildblue/
Cherries - http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/iac/agnic/cherry.html
Grapes/Viticulture (I maintain this one) - 
http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/viticulture1.shtml
Tree Fruits - http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/AgNIC/

Other subjects of info-rich AgNIC sites include: Bees and Pollination, 
Maple Syrup, Agricultural Law, Subtropical Horticulture, Plant Genetics, 
and many others, and are listed at 
http://www.central.agnic.org/agnic/partners/index.html

Also try 'Fruit Science: Pomology Links' at 
http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/frtlinks.shtml
I maintain this one, too. (If you have links you think I should add, just 
email me and I can update the page. Since we don't grow cherries here at 
the Fruit Experiment Station, I don't have it as a catagory (yet).)

When I search the full WWW, I use Googles Advanced Search, using the 'exact 
phrase' for names and pharases, like "cherry trees", and use the 'all of 
the words' line for additional words like cultivars, varieties, Prunus, and 
so forth.
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

I hope this helps,
----Suzi Teghtmeyer

Librarian, Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science
Southwest Missouri State University Mtn. Grove Campus and Missouri Fruit 
Experiment Station
9740 Red Spring Rd, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
Phone: 417-926-4105, Fax: 417-926-6646,  email: srt175f@smsu.edu
URL: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/
AgNIC Viticulture site: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/viticulture1.shtml
Member: CBHL, USAIN, ALA, ACRL, IAALD

At 05:21 PM 07/20/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> It is getting harder and harder to track down things like Cherry Trees using
> existing search engines. Today I came across this web site.
> http://www.fruit-trees-cherry.com/
>
> I entered a search on "cherry trees" then I tried "cherries". The results
> were disappointing. Basically, the same thing happened with Google. Does
> anyone know of a search engine that actually tries to find what is entered
> in the search?

Librarian, Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science
Southwest Missouri State University Mtn. Grove Campus and Missouri Fruit 
Experiment Station
9740 Red Spring Rd, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
Phone: 417-926-4105, Fax: 417-926-6646,  email: srt175f@smsu.edu
URL: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/
AgNIC Viticulture site: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/viticulture1.shtml
Member: CBHL, USAIN, ALA, ACRL, IAALD