Show our favorite trees for christmas FIR and spruce are the favorites among christmas trees balsam fir always has been an american favorite the story story goes that the lord sent three messengers faith hop hope and love to find a tree as high as faith as eternal as hope and as wide spread as love and which bore the sign of the cross on every bough they brought back the balsam fir three varieties of spruce blue white or norway also are big sell ers to in the tree markets if your tree Is neither fir nor spruce you may have some variety of pine or cedar almost any ever green m makes akes a christmas tree the species being dictated largely by where you live in colorado folks use the lodgepole pine because the firs grow too high up in the moun bains to be cut and shipped easily tennessee uses white cedar and in california you may even get a red wood |