The item was received broken!  The base is made of concrete and had no protection around it other than the thin box it was shipped in.  This lack of proper packaging obviously makes it vulnerable so of course it's going to crack during the shipping process.  The tree looked like it would have been nice but it was useless to me because the bottom section of the tree is cemented in and the base was in two pieces so that section had nothing to support it.  Very poorly packaged.