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The commercial Christmas tree you buy this year most likely didn’t “just grow” like topsy. Chances are the tree you enjoy during the holidays has for several years received careful attention from a tree farmer,
Growing Christmas trees require almost as much care as tobacco, cotton, or any other commercial crop—and Christmas trees are grown with the idea of producing a compact, well-shaped tree about seven or eight years old. Christmas tree customers have established such high standards that great stress is put on the quality of the tree, whether it be Fraser fir, Douglas fir, red cedar, Scotch pine, Arizona cypress, white pine or other popular varieties.
Commercial growers of the Fraser fir, for instance, start cutting back the side and top branches when the tree is about
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