600 of 2,000 State Growers Survive
Christmas Trees Lose Some Glitter
In (he 1950*, theic weie .in because of slim piofils and be
estimated 2.000 Christmas tier cause of the advuit of the aili
«rowcrs in Pennsylvania Today final tiee. accoidum to the Penn
theio are appio\imalely GOO sylvama Depaitmont of Aeiicul-
What happened 9 tuic.
The numbei of Chnstmas tuv After Woild Wat 11, laisnr,
«!iowns melted like snowball-, Chii'tmas tiees became the pop-
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ulai thin" to do for a \aiiely of
non-aip icultmal people phy
sicians, dentists aichilecls and
businessmen of all soil*-
Hcu 1 \vas a real bonanza, a
mothei lode an untapped souice
of wealth Heie was an item
that could bo bought loi two
nuts and planted on low pi iced
land You could sit back, do
nothin", watch it glow and col
lect $3 foi it a few jeais later
Oi so it seemed
The tv os eventually learned
that few Chnstmas tiees can
make it on then own into a
family’s living 100 m They need
sheaung and caie befoie they
can become a fine-looking, per
fect tiee The sheaung and caie
lequne laboi and equipment and
involve much expense
Something else was happening
The US was becoming increas
ingly affluent and demanding
Mis Housewife wanted the per
fect Chnstmas tiee
Because of her demands for
peifection, hundreds of thou
sands of Chnstmas trees which
just plain gievv and received no
attention never were cut and
nevei leached the stage where
they would suppoit glittering
tinsel and coloied balls
Exit many would-be Christmas
tiee gioweis
Professional Christmas tree
groweis are so awaie of the
necessity of marketing quality
trees that they seldom cut more
than 50 to 60 per cent of their
crop for the holiday season The
less-than-perfect specimens aie
destioyed
Need it be said that the de
stioyed tiees leceive the same
caie, involving the same expense,
that the peifect trees leceive 9
Aitificial tiees haven’t been
exactly a godsend to Pennsyl
vania’s Christmas tiee gioweis
Eveiy time an artificial tree
is puichased it means a sales
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CALEB M.
WENGER
R. D. 1
Drumore Center
Quarryville, Pa.
Phone 548-2116
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, September 12.1970
loss of fom to fisc natmal tiees
because a hotiseuile will usu.ilK
keep hei aitiliu.il tiee for four
to five jeui s
Artificial tiees which have
become mcicasmglv attiacme,
have cei tain advantages Then
can be kept foi moio than one
jeai and constitute no distiosal
pioblem
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advantages Then aie usuallv
displaced in a beautiful setting
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in a waim dcp.n:im nt stoic
Linhtin** edccts add to then
atti action
Bui natinal Chii'tmas t.t*o*>
lom.i.n the fa\ol itr Millions of
Pcnnsilvama taowii tices will
iiO to inaihot this fall
Indiana Countv the Christmas
tuo capital of the woild will
smd moic thin thicc million
tiecs to maikets deep in the
south and as fai wist as Tex is
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