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I have finally made peace with the silver tree. And it only cost me a dollar. My mother was not a big fan of Christmas, but back in the 1950s and 1960s she dutifully went through the motions of ...

As I waited in the car last weekend, I watched Christmas trees being unloaded onto a lot, and I was captivated by such a pleasant sight. The trees were green and fresh, and looked pretty and healthy.

hristmas tree farmers in the Northeast have lost up to 25% of their crop from the severe drought. WBZ-TV Oh the weather outside is frightful — enough to kill off Christmas trees. Yuletide firs are ...

More than two-thirds of Americans will decorate their homes for the holidays this year, and nearly three in four will have a Christmas tree. Please sign up for the Rasmussen Reports daily e-mail ...

The analysis took into account things like the netting around real Christmas trees and the water used to keep them alive in homes, versus the plastic packaging tape used on fake-tree boxes and ...

It's time to discuss one of the perennial debates of the holiday season: Which are more eco-friendly, real trees or their fake counterparts? If you ask Tim O'Connor, executive director of the National ...