New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-16
Open Winter Gives Forest
of Trees with True
Christmas Spirit.
HOLLY is SPARSE
AND ALSO SCARCE
Community Emblem, Sixty Feet
Long, Here After Long Trip
from Long Island.

Salute Old High-Cost -of-Living as
consistent performer. but not everything
is in league with this ogre despite pes
simistic beliefs And one OF these 10 an
open winter
Through the Vaccinations Of the latter
any man In New York can purchase
Christmas tree this year for price not
in excess OF that of a year ago. The
trees will sell for 10 cents apiece and up
Thousands of Christmas trees lined
West street yesterday. and one reason
therefor was the open winter. This was
straight from the wholesalers. Most OF
those trees came from near Quebec.
There was a Yuletide hustle on West
street after the trees arrived. Carts from
all over the city were backed up 10
the small forest, and retailers dickered
with wholesalers for bundles of them
ranging from to So feet. one dealer
had a tree measuring 81 feet II was
shipped here on two freight cars ana
came from the White Mountains.
Because of the quarantine against
Maine. Vermont. Massachusetts and New
Hampshire wholesalers had arranged lot
trees outside the quarantine zone. 1heF
did not want 10 be delayed by the pos
sihilitv of browntail and gypsy moths
They were willing to stand the duty.
which was said 10 be between s. and ~
q car. 5000 trees. and the freight charges,
ranging from IS to SIS.
One OF the biggest wholesale mer-
chants had this 20 say about prices:
They will be about the same as last
wear. due to the open winter. From W.
600 TO $4,000 trees will be In the market
for the holiday season. Trees anywhere
from 5 10 Is feet sell at wholesale Ior
from 81 30 10 g apiece. Anything over 10
feet goes for 81 a foot Some of the small
trees. three. four and FIVE In bundle are
going for from 70 10 90 cents the bundle
don't think the retailers will put up the
urice because the market Is so we'll sup
Piled
A big shipment of mstletoe ls expected
this morning from England. 1t comes III
crates holding as much as an Ordinary
barrel. and sells wholesale for from Sl@
10 81 a case. Dealers said the Enghsh
mistctoe was particularly beautiful TINS
year 1t was poor year ago.
The condition of holly was causing
some concern A frost late last spring
killed the bloom of much OF the Norm
carolina holly This means that there
will be fewer berries than usual. HOLY
wreaths are selling now at wholesale for
from $50 to 50 q 100-pound case, as
against 50 last year. The increase is prin-
cipalIy on the better grades. BY the
dozen the wreaths are going for 81 80 for
the best varieties.
The community Christmas tree. to De
placed in Madison Square Park for Christ
mas week. arrived there yesterday from
Westbury. Long Island. II is said to be
sixty feet high. shipment was made by
means of a big truck and four horses
The trip from Westbury, distance OF
thirty-nine miles, was begun at a M
and the park was reached shortly after
noon. II came by way Of the greensboro
Bridge.
The Star of Hope. which has been
standing on the site TO be occupied by
the tree, has been taken down for the
celebration, and will not go up again
until after New Years Day.