http://www.historytoday.com/alison-barnes/first-christmas-tree
On 08/12/2015 10:16, Mark wrote:
Decorating ones home or place of worship with evergreen foliage around the
Winter Solstice goes back a very long way Bill, Though the idea of the
Christmas Tree was imported from Germany in Victorian times. The Victorian
Royal family being mostly German.
Mark
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Of course back then there probably wasn't anything growing in those woods
that would not pollard or coppice......
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And Christmas trees hadn't been invented anyway....? I think, what do I
know.
Bill.
PS. As part of my bit for the environment I shall be doing the local Scouts'
Christmas tree chipping again this (next) year. I consider this to be sort
of public service and partly environmental in keeping dumped trees out of
the local woods. I note someone is proposing something similar in the Arb
magazine....
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