Christmas Tree Farmers Look to Grow Sales
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Shopping for Christmas presents at  the local mall and watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on  television are an integral part of this holiday season for most  Americans. But there is one tradition that seems to be slipping  away: A real tree.
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Christmas is a time of fantasy. Throughout the land, merchants fantasize about hitting their fourth-quarter numbers, with the aid of gift-givers with starry eyes and platinum credit cards.
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Across the country, initiatives are sprouting to push commerce out of Christmas and focus on tradition.
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-- a popular choice for Christmas trees -- may prove effective in fighting arthritis and pain, confirms The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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By GENE JOHNSON SEATAC, Wash. - Christmas trees are going back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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By Erin Sherbert, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 8--East Contra Costa farmers soon will be able to operate larger roadside stands as well as farm markets, giving them more opportunities to sell their fruits and vegetables.
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As computers and hand-held electronic gadgets eats into sales, this holiday season promises to be an especially competitive one for toymakers.
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then watch them grow. (The Wildcat Chia pet would make a great holiday gift, too. Operators standing by!). They&#39;re not great right now.
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Bargain hunters who could not wait till the traditional Boxing Day sales have been busy online during Christmas Day, retailers say.
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There are more Christmas trees than people in Colebrook, N.H. There are 500,000 trees alone at Weir Tree Farms, a family-owned farm considered to be the town's largest - that's 200 times more trees than Colebrook's population of 2,500.
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By Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Dec. 17--By Maureen Houston Two sweet gum trees towering over Elna Rosenberger's yellow frame home in Cahokia came from southeastern Kentucky as saplings. So did the tulip poplar in back.
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Bob Lemos of Lemos Farm on Highway 92 near Half Moon Bay is optimistic about the Christmas tree season. He started selling trees last weekend, he said.
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By Nzong Xiong, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 9--Many local nurseries are receiving their new bare-root fruit trees from now through the end of January.
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December sales and sales for the fiscal year to date reported by leading retailers.
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The number of Christmas tree farms in Louisiana has fallen like needles from an unwatered tree. There will be at least one less next year.
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Before you open your holiday gifts, Eric and Gloria Sundback want you to open up your Christmas tree. Instead of buying an evenly shaped tree densely packed with
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At Holloway's Christmas Trees, they'll help cut down a tannenbaum, spray it with flame retardant and cover it in fake snow.