Show Our Favorite Trees For Christmas F FIR IR and spruce are the predomInating predominating predominating favorites among ChrIstmas Christmas Christ ChrIst- mas trees Balsam fir always has been an American favorite The story goes that the Lord sent three messengers messengers Faith Faith Hope and Love Loveto to to find a tree as high as Faith as eternal as Hope and as wIdespread widespread wide wIde- a y y c crt rt JM t Y y N 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 sellers sellers sell 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 evergreen evergreen ever ever- green makes 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 mountains mountains mountains moun moun- to be e cut and shipped easily Tennessee uses white cedar and in California you may even get a red red- wood |