Christmas Trees - Some Interesting Facts

Yearly Americans purchase approximately 30 million Christmas trees are being sold across the United States.

• The top branch of the Christmas tree, where the topper is arranged is named the leader. Its length points out the real shape of the tree and very frequently tree’s sale depends on it.

• Being able to resist long-lasting rains, hail storms and drought, a Christmas tree can take 6 to 10 years to mature.

• Trees are able to be cut having a height of 6 to 7 feet.

• Growing Christmas trees supplies a habitat for wildlife.

• One of the often- selling trees are Scotch pine, Douglas fir, Noble fir, Fraser fir, Virginia pine, Balsam fir and white pine.

• An acre can have about 2,000 planted trees. Almost all of them need to be sheared for getting Christmas tree shape.

• Each tree is usually sheared by hand of the workers top to bottom.

• Each tree requires about 2-3 minutes to be sheared.

• Due to shearing the bush of the tree gets the splendid shape of Christmas tree.

• Christmas trees are useful in removing dust and pollen from the air.

• Christmas tree industry employs approximately 100,000 people.

• 98 percent of all Christmas trees are planted on farms.