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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Jerry W. Shepperd wrote:

> After I read your reference to Thomas Jefferson
> and coffee, I "googled" the topic and found the
> following reference.  There is also a picture of
> his coffee urn "made to his specifications."

I poked around, too, and found this on some site:

The French became interested in the Indian coffee, but their attempt  
to propagate coffee in southern France, near Dijon, failed because the  
tree does not tolerate frost.

So we would need a greenhouse to get a homestead coffee tree through  
the winter.

Btw, in rereading Eliot Coleman's useful book: Four-Season Gardening,  
I was again take by his note that his Maine location is the same  
latitude as southern France.