Montpelier examiner., 1912-12-13

tanned. The limbs are bound down tight so as
to room in shipping Then they are bound
together In punches of FIVE, this being convenient
for both shipment and sale. They go to market
in open cars that they may be kept cool and pos
sibly damp. Otherwise their tips might wilt and
their attractiveness thus be lessened. They are
sold direct from the cars to retailers and these
make point of keeping them always In the open
air.
Throughout the southern states the supply of
Christmas trees comes from the southern pine
that overruns the region Ordinarily the markets
are supplied by the wagons of the farmers, out
in the bigger cities they come in carload and
tranioad lots. The fr is abundant In Colorado,
but 1t grows In high, inaccessible places, and
therefore the Douglas spruce and the lodgepole
pine largely take its place. This is largely true
of all the Rocky Mountain states, In California
and the other Pacific Coast states the incense
cedar and the young coast redwoods are, quite
generally used as Christmas trees The swamps
OF Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota furnish
the markets Of Chicago. st. Paul. Minneapolis and
Detroit.
When the time is ready for the indoor use Of
the tree 1t is dug up and pared down to graceful
piece of earth as base Then a piece Of can
vas or any other sort df stout cloth is bound
about the base to prevent crumbling Of the earth
The whole of this is then fitted into box or tub
and is ready to serve ita purpose In the house
1t is more solid and effective indoors than the or
binary tree and never willis or droops. 1t is in
reality living tree.
When the festivities over the tree is taken
to the point where It Is I'd be planted hole 10
dug to fit Its base. This may be successfully ac-
compllshed where the ground is frozen. The
tree Is lifted from its tub, the cloth ts taken from
around its base and 1t ID fitted again into the
earth from which 1t came. The protected roots
again take hold and the tree goes on growing
without even knowledge of its holiday expe-
rience II is in way injured.
Nurserymen specially prepare trees for just
fhfa nurnoaa Individuals do same thfna
with no more explanation than that given above.
Trees from the native woods around any village
may have their roots pruned in advance or they
may be dug up with no preparation whatever.
There is better chance Of their nourishing when
they have been prepared for the transplanting
But any evergreen dug up with Q bit OF earth
about Its roots should grow.
There is also a manner of permanently marking
trees without injuring them or interfering with
their growth. A tag fastened TO piece Of wire
will remain attached to q tree for q century
This tag may be OF metal and on Il may be stamp
ed the date and whatever legend II desired. The
home of growing family may thus be left with
q permanent monument Of all the Christmases
that have passed over the heads OF the children
that have dwelt within It. When these return
to the ancestral hearth In their old age they can
recall the planting Of the trees and the events
that hover about the occasion In question. Incl
dentally, the landscape will have been beauti
ned, and aside from the sentimental phase OF 1t
much valuable timber produced.
The Christmas tree industry of the United
States has assumed great proportions and Uncle
Sam is making plans to place the industry upon
permanently profitable basis through reforest
ing large areas. Incidentally the new industry
has furnished opportunity for hundreds OF
boys and girls to earn their Christmas money In
new way by harvesting the cones of evergreen
trees
OF the nations forest land 60,000000 acres
are today covered with mature timber while
100000 acres are well seeded with youne
growth This leaves 100000,000 acres that art
either non-productive or only partly productive
1t is for this 100000,000 acres that seed are ts
be gathered. and 1t is upon this vast expanss
that they to be planted until the whole II
developed into its greatest possible yielding capa
city, making 1t one of the finest forests that the
world has ever known