| Show GIVE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE A DRINK OF WATER 0 many people now have their christmas tree and have been or are getting ready to set it up in the house to be decorated ever everyone y is interested in keeping the needles on the tree and keeping the tree intact as long as possible in order to help along this line it is suggested that a few simple services be rendered the tree out in the moun mountains fains the tree had its roots in the ground where it could secure water to spread through all the leaves and naturally the tree remained a alive and pretty you can attempt to make a mountain home for the tree in your own house by supplying water this can be done by peeling off the bark for f or one or two inched on the tree stem then placing the stem in an 8 to 12 inch bucket of sand and keeping this sand moist with water ordinarily this bucket of sand will also serve as a stand for the tree this will give the tree a chance to secure water to keep the needles turgid whereby they will remain on the tree longer RALPH JENSEN F forest orest ranger |
