[Magdalen] Christmas Trees

[Grace Cangialosi]

I have lots of volunteer cedars on my property--they're generally considered weeds here--and they really make pretty Christmas trees, especially with all white lights.
The downside is that after they've dried out a bit, they tear your hands up.

> On Dec 23, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/23/2016 2:20:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net writes:
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> 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?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> 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.
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> David S.
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