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Show ur Christmas Customs LIVELY STORIES OF CHRISTMAS Christmas, the commemoration commem-oration of the Holy Birth, has long been considered a lively holiday and a celebration celebra-tion of the joy of life. You can add to the liveliness live-liness of your Christmas celebration cel-ebration by bringing a little life into your home and the homes of your friends. It's a natural thing to do at this season, with lovely, living plants and trees. You can prolong the holiday cheer in your own home by getting living Christmas tree you can replant re-plant in the New Year. Select a tree with a sturdy root ball, and keep it moist and cool in a shallow container con-tainer away from heat outlets out-lets and fireplaces. After the holidays, plant it as soon as the ground can be dug. You can get some planting tips from a nursery garden center or from the American Association of Nurserymen. Next year, you'll be able to enjoy decorating dec-orating two Christmas trees, -one inside, one out. To enliven your Christmas Christ-mas giving, there are plants to fit almost everyone on your list. For homeowners, try giving ornamental or shade trees, or charming shrubs and bushes. Match plants to personalities-there personalities-there are flowering house mill A LITTLE GREENERY can go a long way toward enlivening en-livening the holidays. plants; delicate, exotic ferns; businesslike broad-leaved plants and hardy cacti, among many others. For a child, a Christmas plant can be a learning experience. He can get to know more about nature; how plants grow, what makes them green and what they can do for us; and at the same time he can learn about the responsibility of caring for a living thing. What's more, you don't have to part with a lot of , your long green to make it ' a lively green Christmas for your family and friends. |