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still persevere, and try all soils in the locality, and 

 plant seeds from all climates, and procure plants at all 

 ages, from not one only, but from a variety of climates. 

 There are cases where some plants cannot be raised from 

 seeds, and where even young plants from other countries 

 cannot live without changing their nature ; yet old 

 plants being introduced may succeed, and the seeds from 

 such old plants after a few years may be acclimated, and 

 fit for the propagation of young plants. However, I do 

 not think that all that labor is necessary for the coffee 

 plant. There is every variety of soil and climate in the 

 United States of America, and abundance of room can 

 easily be found adapted to the growth of coffee or any 

 thing else ; and abundance of coffee seeds or plants can 

 be had acclimated for at least all the States down from 

 35 of North Latitude. However, I do not recommend 

 that any party should invest a fortune in coffee planta 

 tions ; a large quantity might be produced without great 

 expense by having a few garden trees or hedge trees, or 

 half an acre or so. There are coffee plantations high up 

 on the Chera hills of North East of India, where it is 

 excessively cold in winter ; they belong to a gentleman 

 with whom the writer is personally acquainted. I have 

 seen coffee grown wild in the 27th deg. North Latitude 

 of India, on hills, some three to four hundred feet high, 

 where it was intensely cold, and where there were frost, 

 snow arid hail, and all around it the higher mountains 

 capped with perpetual snow. There is nothing therefore 

 required but attention to the various sides of the ques 

 tion and perseverance. And it is not only coffee that 

 requires these virtues, but every thing else and with 

 out them there can be little success. It would be well 



