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Show CHRISTMAS TREES Trad tior. has it that Christmas trees were first used in Germany when Christian missionaries chopped chop-ped down trees worshiped by the pagans and made a decorated tree part of the Christian celebration. Earliest records of the use of Christmas trees in the United States indicate that German immigrants, im-migrants, who wanted to preserve the type of Christmas they had in Germany, were responsible for popularizing the use of trees In this country. To decorate a fruit cake, clip one side o candied fruit in syrup and press it into the top of the fruit cake. |