Show our favorite trees for christmas lair R and spruce are the bating favorites among christmas trees balsam fir always has ha been an american favorite the story goes that the lord sent three mess messengers engers falth faith hope and love to find a tree as high as faith as aa eternal as hope and as widespread fl lill K as love and which bore the sign of the cross on every bough they brought back the balsam fir three varieties of 0 spruce blue white or norway also are big sell ers in the tree markets e if your tree is neither fir nor spruce you may have some variety of pine or cedar almost any evergreen makes a christmas tree the species being dictated largely by where you live in colorado folks use the lodgepole pine because the flys grow too high up in the moun bains to be cut and shipped easily tennessee uses white cedar and in calibo california we you may even get a red wood |