[Magdalen] Christmas Trees

[Jay Weigel]

Many years ago, when the late ex and I always bought our live trees from
the "Christmas tree man" from Michigan who grew his own and set up a lot in
our town every year, we got two blue spruce seedlings from him. We planted
them equidistantly in our front yard. One flourished and grew, but the
other did not. I was ecstatic when the one that flourished grew tall enough
to get its first string of lights for Christmas, along with the dwarf
Alberta spruce at the corner of the house which never got more than 3.5
feet tall. The blue spruce is now huge, I would estimate probably around 12
feet tall, and nobody wants to fool with putting lights on it any more!

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 12/24/2016 11:52:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu writes:
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> No  ornaments>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> The years we lived in Germany, we had an indoor decorated tree,
> and I bought a tree for a container on the front balcony.  Both  were,
> of course, the ubiquitous (in Europe) Norway Spruce species,
> Picea abies.
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> The balcony tree did very well, and I planted it in the lawn  area
> before we left for CONUS.  Some 15 years later I drove by to  note
> that it was doing well and 30' - 40' tall.
>
> Norway Spruce trees do very well in the eastern half of the USA,
> and most of the Rockefeller Center Christmas trees are of that
> species, including the one this year from Upstate New York.
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> David S.
>