CANADA’S CHRISTMAS TREE
CROP 4,000,000 ANNUALLY. ST. JOHN, New Brunswick. Jan. 4. To decorate homes and verandahs in the United States during the recent Christmas season nearly four million ever-green trees were shipped from Canada. Canadian homes used from half a million to a million trees from ’the woodlands of the nine provinces. Thus the Christmas tree as a commercial article has attained some importance. Its use has increased rapidly under the modern manner of setting up trees on the verandahs and lawns of dwellings, stringing them with ornamental electric lights. In Eastern Canada the favourite Christmas tree is the young fir or spruce, about ten feet in height. British Columbia prefers the Douglas fir. Others used are the balsam fir, the cedar, hemlock, juniper and pine. The Dominion Government’s Forestry branch has pointed out that the cutting of these millions of young trees has but a negligible place in the Canadian forest economy. Many are taken from fields where they are a handicap to agriculture; others from timber land which has to be thinned for commercial exploitation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 9
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178CANADA’S CHRISTMAS TREE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 9
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