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THE polyvinyl chloride Christmas tree-may be “to -day,”- the pollution-proof evergreen may be “tomorrow,” but the needle-spraying tannenbaum of yesteryear is forever. In fact, this year as many as ever real Christmas trees are presiding over American living rooms. The National Christmas Tree Growers Association ^tits the number at 35 million. 5
The Old Fashioned Christmas Tree--genuinely green , sometimes dangerously dry, and with an eerily inevitable tendency to shed ornaments, burn out lights, and lean in its supporting standard—survives today despite man’s ceaseless efforts to fool Mother Nature.
Many of today’s factoryborn trees look as though they had come straight from the forest. So far, realism has fallen short of inventing a tree that will drop its artificial needles,
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