[Magdalen] Christmas Trees

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/23/2016 2:20:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
charles.wohlers at verizon.net writes:


It's  definitely an advantage to live where balsam firs grow wild in such  
profusion - we have many well over 50' tall, plus lots of smaller ones  
too. 
Why pay for a live tree when there are so many growing right outside  your  
door?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
We are well south of the natural range here of the Balsam Firs,  although
I have a 40' fir in the front yard that my brother sent me in an  envelope
as a 3" seedling from his back yard.
 
In Wisconsin, i was just south of the natural range of the Balsam  Fir,
and so I dug up a few 15" seedlings roadside late one summer (August)
and planted them.  Though early in the dormancy season, they all  took
very well.
 
I had a wild 80 acres thirty miles north of Eau Claire, and I planted  some
firs there, only to have a commercial Christmas tree company come  into
the property and cut most of the first and girdle the White and Red  Pines
to use for their wreaths.  
 
I tracked them down, and they not only didn't apologize for  "borrowing"
these trees, but were defiant about their action suggesting it was  their
"right" to cut trees on wild property wherever they wanted.  I warned  them
that if they tried cutting trees and boughs on my property again there  
would
be hell to pay.
 
 
David S.