Christmas tree farmers try to woo customers back
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Don&#39;t tell Santa: Live Christmas trees could be a dying tradition in the United States. Since 1999, the number of households that display real trees has dropped dramatically -- by 33 percent, from 35.4 million to 23.4 million.
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Yes, the holidays bring millions of chopped-down trees and megawatts of flashing lights. But they don't have to be an environmentalist's worst nightmare.
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The Christmas tree decorations were being rehung at Pasco County buildings Friday after the reversal of a county attorney's finding that the trees were unacceptable religious symbols.
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The High Street is hoping for a busy weekend amid disappointing Christmas sales so far.
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Christmas plant has become multimillion-dollar industry in one of the most picturesque tourist spots.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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Joe Sharp has traveled the world but says he has never found a more perfect Christmas tree than in Oregon, the nation&#39;s largest producer in a $791 million industry and a leader in the effort to revive the holiday market for live trees.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 9--EDWARDSVILLE -- A $50 raffle ticket under a Christmas tree soon may have an Edwardsville man raising the roof.
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Bonnie Ross-Stefanie hasn't put up a Christmas tree in the three years since her online chocolate candy business took off. Instead, she fills her home with poinsettias and works 18 hours every day in December.
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Christmas tree growers in Denmark are charged after being accused of trying to rig prices of festive firs.
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Renee McDonald remembers the Christmas trees of her youth: spindly, fake and out of a box. They were hard to put up, and they just didn&#39;t smell right.
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U.S. retailers were hopeful on Monday that a dusting of snow on the East Coast would put consumers in the Christmas shopping mood after what has so far been a ho-hum holiday sales season.
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Betty Thomas wasn&#39;t about to let higher citrus prices and a few scars on the fruit ruin her family Christmas. She said her grandchildren expect her to show
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Clay Aiken has fond memories of holidays at home &#151; driving with a fake Christmas tree sticking through the back windows of his packed Honda Accord because his family waited too late to buy a real tree.
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Oregon Christmas tree growers are shipping 1,300 donated trees to military families based at Fort Hood, Texas, industry officials said.
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Latvian authorities have given residents something to cheer about when they invited them to cut their own Christmas trees for free -- only to be chased away by forest rangers.
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By CHRIS BEARDSHAW  GARDENING   CHRISTMAS trees aren't the only plants to bring some sparkle to the party season.   Exotic houseplants make perfect festive gifts and fill rooms with a starburst of scent and colour - so long as they are looked after.