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Article: HOW TO KEEP THEM FRESH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 29, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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For a really fresh Christmas tree, your best bet is to visit a
plantation and cut your own, but you can enhance the longevity of
any tree with plain water and a sharp saw.
Jack Jackson, a state forester and a director of the Mass.
Christmas Tree Association, an organization of tree growers, says
that a plantation-grown tree will keep well, stored in a cool,
shady place, such as a garage, with its trunk in a bucket of water.
You can harvest a plantation-grown tree as early as the second
week in December, store it with its trunk in water, and it will
be fresh and green when you're ready to set it up in the house.
The trees you find already cut at the roadside stands,
Jackson says, ...