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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 5, 2008, at 9:23 AM, EarthNSky wrote:
> Latitude is interesting to think about.  Yeah, you have the sun's
> influence, but more importantly, you have ocean currents and large
> bodies of water that influence things, too.  Chicago and Rome Italy  
> are
> on the same latitude, as are Athens, Greece and Washington DC.

I recently reread Eliot Coleman's Four-Season Gardening in which he  
notes that his Maine location is the latitude of southern France.