Montreal is celebrating its 375th anniversary and some folks had an idea to have a Christmas tree taller than that at Rockefeller Center which their research told them the average height was 74 feet. So they duly found a 78 footer in Ontario that was amazing. But in November they learned that the 2016 tree in Manhattan would be a 94 foot Norway spruce. Undeterred they scrambled to find a balsam fir in Quebec but on arrival it only measured 88 feet, was slightly misshapen and had a flat top. A tree only Charlie Brown could love. But the citizens are coming around to appreciate this "naughty fir". And the Rockefeller tree is gorgeous.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/canada/in-montreal-an-ungainly-and-unloved-christmas-tree.html?src=me&_r=0
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