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["Teghtmeyer, Suzanne R" <srt175f@smsu.edu>]

Mark,

Many of the terms you listed are basic plant / tree biology terms. Any basic botany book should define and place them in a context for you.

Meanwhile, a quick google search on some of the terms came up with the following sites:

http://www.uic.edu/classes/bios/bios100/labs/plantanatomy.htm

 

http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/Biodiversity/CapturingTheSun/

 

Have fun!

----Suzi Teghtmeyer

Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science

Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station and Mid-America Viticulture and Enology Center,

Southwest Missouri State University, Mountain Grove Campus

Evans Library Homepage: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/

AgNIC Viticulture site: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/viticulture1.shtml

Email: srt175f@smsu.edu

Member: CBHL, AgNIC, USAIN, IAALD, ALA, STC

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Thetes_Mark_Straka
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:37 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?

 

I just saw a "prowler owl" with a four-foot wingspan to mount on a 1/2" pole to scare off bird pests (on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4314418476&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AMT%3A1)  I was wondering if anyone has used this or something like this, and of course, how effective it is.  [By the way, what's the opposite of "decoy?"]

 

I'm trying to read Fred Brison's Pecan Culture, but I'm having trouble getting through Chapter Two.  It is laced with vocabulary like: pericycle, acropetal, xylem, parenchyma, schlerenchyma, medullary ray tissue, abscission, sessile flowers, bract, apical dominance, perianth, peduncle, and I could go on.  I am in bad need of some reference work that will get me up to speed (hopefully illustrated!) and I'm soliciting recommendations right now.  Thank you all very much.

 

I'm a rank beginning pecan orchardist.

 

Mark Straka