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Show Our Favorite Trees For Christmas pIR and spruce are the predominating predomi-nating favorites among Christmas Christ-mas trees. Balsam fir always has been an American favorite. The story goes that the Lord sent three messengers Faith, 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 sellers sell-ers In the tree markets. If your tree is neither fir nor spruce, you may have some variety of pine or cedar. Almost any evergreen ever-green makes a Christmas tree, the species being dictated largely by where you live. In Colorado folks use the lodgcpole pine because th firs grow too high up In the moun tains to be cut and shipped easily, Tennessee uses white cedar, and ir California you may even get a red wood. |