Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-03

as the hnlHam. In these days YOU
Ect haisam tree fragrant ana waving
soft ana fcathery, Tor the same price
which you used to pay for a ntin,
hranchcd spruce liut spruce trees
on the other hand. are very decorative
| for large halls and Ms they grow tail
and broad they are In demand.
After the Christmas trees are load
ed on alelgha and are taken 20 the sta
I tlon they are tied In bunchee Of I'VE
each and carefully assorted the same
/ size and height.
The lunches nrc laid into the rail-
way cars. fve trees 10 "A bunch 500
lunches 10 car load. You can Judge
u the rn0rmity Of the ChrirtmnH tree
Industry by the fact that there are
now arriving az the great city centres
every day. carloads and carloads NJ
these trees which. In another week.
viii be unpncked and tempting you
/ from the street corners.
THE COST.
The Christmas tree mon who re-
ccivc them az the station pay only
: twenty-five cents bunch for these bis
I trees, sn that he gets five for twenty
/ nyu cents. hut on the other hand. he
must pay for tho cost Of the car which
brought them 60 the city. and the labor
involved In handling, 20 that his Christi
mas tree profits are not Us great as
might be supposed.
Santa Clause. besides dealing In
chriatmnH trees. deals also In Christ
mas greens. which come principally
I from the East. Delaware and New
Jersey supply nearly all the greens ~
I Eastern commerce. ana their products
are shipped 10 the far West The lake
states have very delicate. fcathcry
green which II now being gathered for
Christmas, but unfortunately Il does
not grow In q eat abundance NJ proa-
ont. u IN softer and more decorative
than any other green found. nn1, when
n N cultivated, Santa Clause win Ind
that he has "a wonderful new material
Santa Claus uses these green's Tor
ropes and figures. such as Nrcaths.
crowns and Christmas stars. The favor
ite greens Tor thiH use uro ground pine,
fonthory turf and Princess feather.
These nrc tied IN ropes by tho hands
OF tho fnfmerH' children aud ar ahlpp 4
in barrels To the cities. In the West.
Wisconsin iH the headquarters FOR the
greens, ANA Christmas time there nre
Thousands of barrels seen every year.
THE HOLLY
A part OF tho Christmas green
is the English holly II comes mostly
NJ VIII NNN - hNNH'N NNNN ~ fNlNilf lfN
lud beautiful. IL is used In lunches
Hr rs tod IN ropes 81 green Nearly
1000 tho real English holly comes from
Jersey, though there are a few barrels
the imported material II takes I'VE
srafH 90 grow r. Christmas tree. but
.ho greens renew themFe'yua every year.
U1r they are tho little soft vines which
tNiue around the great trunks of the
forest trocf.
The Christmas tree farmer who
plants q shoot whom he rs a boy win
bo able a. Holl the tIcc when he Is Fr0wn
10 manhood ans N he koeIa on plant
lng them every year or cultlyatlng
thom, he will have q STEADY supply uf
trees an long aH he lives ana can leave
a forest ms legacy 20 his sons. n
the forest W largo enough ho can live
400 The year around on his Chrlaumas
uee products.
liut the men In the cities who ham
l'o tho trees nre the ones Who under.
riand the business best They can toll
ny thr climate during the summer how
the Christmas tree year viii bc. and
They make their Christmas tree pre-
parntlonR accordingly
A cool summer Ia best for them FOR
70 Christmas tree never thriycn h. great
heat llut the Christmas tree crops
never fan, n springs up year after year
and there VIII always be supply.
Santa claus lends his aid very kind.
ly 10 the Christmas tree industry and
1 quite impartial In his distribution
Of gifts lie decorates those that are
purchased upon the corner lust as
though they were his own. and the man
no brings home helatod tree at ~
O'Clock Saturday night may wake up
Christmas morning 10 find that the
good Old Saint has trimmed the tree as
prettlly AS though It had stood waiting
Tor him by the chimney In the back OF
the paglor fcI full month.