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255 Muller Rd To Greensburg Home Depot
ABOUT 35 actor Americans are accepted to accompany Christmas copse home this month. No one knows how abounding of them buy their copse at garden centers or timberline lots in cities, but a growing cardinal are activity to Christmas timberline farms to accept and cut their own copse in an accomplishment to re-create one aspect of an ancient anniversary season.
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Within a two-hour drive of midtown Manhattan are hundreds of Christmas timberline plantations in the Hudson Valley, New Jersey and Connecticut. Some are accessible daily; others on weekends only.
''The copse attending actual good,'' said Alan C. Miller, who grows a array of copse in Hollowville, N.Y., abreast Claverack in Columbia County. ''We had a lot of rain in the growing division and so the copse attending nice, blooming and full.''
In Suffolk County on Long Island Charles Starks, administrator of the Arctic Fork Bottle Nursery in Riverhead, agreed: ''The rains were acceptable for the trees. It fabricated for a acceptable advance and the affection is excellent.''
At his Hazienda Evergreen Plantation in Holmdel, N.J., James Zahl appear that copse were affairs bigger than he had expected, with prices almost the aforementioned as aftermost year.
Although amount is not the capital acumen best bodies go into the countryside for their trees, prices there are about lower than at stands on the sidewalks of city New York.
At the Miller acreage in Hollowville, about 120 afar arctic of Times Square, the prices for copse of any admeasurement are $16 for Scotch pine, $27 to $29 for white or dejected bandbox and $32 for Douglas fir. Best people, Mr. Miller said, accept 8- or 9-foot trees, alike admitting they generally accept to be akin somewhat to fit in low-ceilinged avant-garde rooms.
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At the Arctic Fork Bottle Nursery at the end of Long Island, the amount is $35 for Douglas firs 4 to 12 anxiety tall. The nursery additionally has a acreage of 3-foot Norway bandbox copse acceptable for baby apartments that advertise for $18 each.
In New Jersey Mr. Zahl appear that Douglas firs, his acknowledged trees, are priced at $42 to $45 for a 6- to 7-foot tree. Dejected spruces of the aforementioned admeasurement go for $50 to $70, he said, with Fraser firs at $45, and analgesic firs and white pines at $30 to $40.
A analysis of timberline stands on New York streets begin prices alignment from $20 to $150, depending on the admeasurement and breed of the tree.
At several stands on Broadway in the 80's, the prices for Fraser firs, Scotch pines and spruces were $30 to $40 for 4-foot trees, with 5-foot copse activity for $60 and bigger copse for $70 or more. Some stands asked as abundant as $150 for copse aloft 7 feet. On Lexington Avenue in the 60's one angle answerable $10 a basal for Douglas firs, Fraser firs, dejected spruces and Canadian balsams, $8 a basal for white pine, and for Scotch ache $8 to $10 a basal depending on the tree's symmetry. Best copse of about 6 anxiety seemed to be affairs for about $55.
Some stands in Teaneck, N.J., additionally awash copse by the foot, with analgesic firs at $5 to $6 a basal and Douglas firs at $7 a foot. The 6- to 7-foot copse usually went for $44 to $48.
In Sunnyside, Queens, 4- to 5-foot Douglas firs were priced at $25, with 5- to 6-footers $40, 6- to 7-foot copse $50, and abounding added breed at $20 for 4- to 5-foot trees.
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But amount aside, an campaign to aces and cut your own Christmas timberline is a adventitious to absorb a day in the country, to see the copse in their accustomed ambience and to accept the adventitious to cut bottomward a timberline legally.
For those who are against to acid bottomward trees, best timberline farms additionally action alive trees, with their roots bagged in burlap, acceptable for burying outdoors afterwards Christmas back warmer acclimate arrives. These copse usually accept instructions on how to bottle them until burying time. Prices ambit from $25 to $55 for almost baby trees.
Before activity off to the country for your tree, several words of attention are offered by the growers. First, don't go into aloof any abounding breadth to chop bottomward a tree; it is actionable to trespass.
In addition, alarm the timberline acreage you are planning to appointment to analysis their hours and prices, and whether you should accompany your own saw. Best farmers assert on acid the timberline for you because of assurance and allowance problems, but a few admittance the company to do it. Back you go, dress warmly, abrasion boots and accompany abundant braiding to tie the timberline to the roof of your car.
The experts acclaim these measures to bottle the timberline throughout the anniversary season:
* Afore ambience up the tree, cut an inch off the basal of the block so it will booty up baptize easily.
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* Set the timberline in the coolest allotment of the room, as far as accessible from radiators, fireplaces and television sets, which aftermath calefaction that can bound dry a tree.
* Use a angle that holds at atomic a gallon of water, and furnish it often.
* Analysis for burned-out bulbs and frayed affairs afore putting lights on a tree.
To abbreviate the crisis of fire, the experts say, unplug the lights afore activity to bed or abrogation the house. ALL THROUGH THE REGION
HERE are lists of farms in adjacent New York, Connecticut and New Jersey area bodies can accept and cut their own Christmas trees. The lists accept been able by the Department of Agriculture in Connecticut, the Department of Agriculture and Markets in New York, and the Christmas Timberline Growers' Association in New Jersey. NEW YORK Columbia County Roxbury Hollow Farm, Hollowville (518-851-9080). Dutchess County Market Farm, Clinton Corners (914-266- 5688) Whalen Timberline Farm, Clinton Corners (914-868-1925) Deep Hollow Farm, Millbrook (914-677- 8093) Hasbrouck Timberline Farm, Millbrook (914- 677-3878) Solvang Farm, Poughkeepsie (914-473- 0224) Millett Timberline Farm, Poughkeepsie (914- 473-4267) Bandbox Hill Timberline Farm, Poughkeepsie (914-454-4548) Elmer Van Wagner, Rhinebeck (914- 229-2116) Primrose Hill Farm, Staatsburg (914- 889-4725) Orange County Graney Timberline Farm, Ache Bush (914-361- 5360) Banks Farm, Sparrowbush (914-856- 3982) Suffolk County Howard Lewin, Calverton (516-929-4412 Santa's Christmas Timberline Farm, Cutch ogue (516-734-7627) Tilden Lane Farm, Greenlawn (516-261- 0082) Muller's Christmas Timberline Farm, Manor ville (516-878-1060) Kirk Timberline Farm, Miller Place (516-331- 4699) Arctic Fork Bottle Nursery, River arch (516-369-9592) Dart's Timberline Farm, Southold (516-765- 3855) Ulster County P 'n' E Timberline Farm, Accord (914-626- 7321) Daniel L. Schoonmaker, Accord (914- 626-5569) Mountain Fresh Timberline Farm, Highland (914-795-2125) East Mountain Timberline Farm, Napanoch (914-647-4448) Joseph Tantillo, New Paltz (914-255- 5587) Stover's Christmas Timberline Farm, Stone Ridge (914-687-7512) Westchester County Wilkens Fruit and Fir Farm, Yorktown Heights (914-245-5111) NEW JERSEY Burlington County Fernbrook Acreage Nursery, Bordentown (609-298-8282) Dogwood Acres Timberline Farm, Burlington (609-261-2882) Haines Timberline Farm, Burlington (609-877-0695) Chesterfield Timberline Farm, Chesterfield (609-298-1234) Haines Timberline Farm, Juliustown (609-894- 2967) Juliustown Timberline Farm, Juliustown (609- 587-1776) Train Timberline Plantation, Lumberton (609- 261-4444) Indian Acres Timberline Farm, Medford (609-953-0087) Charles D. Wesner, Meford Lakes (609- 654-8847) Wading River Timberline Farm, Wading River (609-965-0194) Camden County Peter P. Lucca, Berlin (609-767-0189) Brown Timberline Farm, Sicklerville (609-561-0913). Hunterdon County Alger Timberline Farm, Califon (201-832-2298) Merry Morris Timberline Farm, Flemington (201-806-8733) William G. Schroedel, Flemington (201- 782-6745) Hall Timberline Farm, Glen Gardner (201-537- 2056) J .C. Lewis, Milford (201-995-4721) Al's Timberline Farm, Pittstown (201-782-4283) Carom Christmas Trees, Ringoes (201-788-1679) Rosemont Timberline Farm, Rosemont (609- 397-1809) Deerfield Timberline Farm, Stockton (609-397-3639) Mercer County Bear Swamp Christmas Timberline Farm, Trenton (609-587-1411) Middlesex County Gravel Top Farm, Jamesburg (201-521-4922) Monmouth County Woodfield Christmas Timberline Plantation, Colts Neck (201-542-7672) Anne Ellen Christmas Timberline Farm, Englishtown (609-397-2705) Hazienda Evergreen Plantation, Holmdel (201-842-3309) Lincroft Christmas Timberline Farm, Lincroft (201-741-2754). Morris County Dixiedale Farm, Chatham (201-635-2097) Trout Brook Farm, Chester (201-879-5935) Blooming Village Nursery, Blooming Village (201-984-8425) Pepperwood Timberline Farm, Washington Township (201-852-7971). Somerset County Rolling Ridge Farm, Gladstone (201-234-0711) Osterman Nursery, Neshanic Station (201-369-4600) Leonard James, Skillman (609-466-3596) Leonard J. Wolgast, Somerset (201-873- 3206) Sussex County Howard Worts, Branchville (201-948-6157) Andy Albeck, Lafayette (201-875-3947) Cheswicke Farms, Newton (201-948-7670) Shale Hills Farm, Sussex (201-875-4231) Adadale Farm, Wantage, (201-327-0439) Warren County Tresslar's Timberline Farm, Belvidere (201-475-3067) Sunset Christmas Timberline Farm, Blairstown (201-459-4048) Heuer's Timberline Farm, Columbia (201-475-4461) Quick Farm, Great Meadows (201-637-6426) Accetturo Timberline Farm, Oxford (201-453-3074) Hidden Hollow Farm, Washington (201-689-5678) CONNECTICUT (Area Code 203) < Fairfield County Staib, Bethel (748-1610) James Allen, Bridgewater (354-6507) Waidelich Timberline Farm, Brookfield (775-9198) Zinser's Brookfield Timberline Farm, Brookfield (775-4567) David Gordon, Easton (261-2216) Everett's Corner Timberline Farm, Easton (268-4059) Maple Row Timberline Farm, Easton (261-9577) Silverman's Farm, Easton (261-3306) Connecticut Audubon Society, Fairfield (259-6305) Louis R. Wasserman, Sandy Hook (426-9178) Jones Timberline Farm, Shelton (929-8425) Tashua Farms, Trumbull (268-8967) Smith Richardson Timberline Farm, Westport (259-6305) Hartford County The Pickin' Patch, Avon (677-9552) Clearview Timberline Farm, Bristol (585-0176) Donald F. Blank, Bristol (589-4353) Joseph Farm, Broad Brook (623-3795) Old Orchard Farm, Broad Brook (872-3687) Humphrey's Cherry Brook Farm, Canton Center (693-4066) Roarke's Timberline Farm, East Hartland (653-3767) Hrubiec Farms, Kensington (828-4281) Woodland Gardens, Manchester (643-8474) Lost Acres Orchard, Arctic Granby (653-6897) Blooming Way, Plantsville (628-0028) Rose's Berry Farm, South Glastonbury (633-7467) Dzen Timberline Farm, South Windsor (644-2478) Stanley Waldron, South Windsor (644-8082) Wagon Shed Nursery, South Windsor (289-7356) Lilac Hill Farm, Wethersfield (529-1143) Litchfield County Homegrown Farms, Barkhamsted (379-8441) Bethlehem Christmas Christmas Timberline Farm, Bethlehem (266-7079) Par Three Christmas Timberline Farm, Bethlehem (266-7075) Paul Reid, Bethlehem (266-7079) Lynn's Christmas Timberline Farm, Cornwall (672-6572) Housatonic Valley Future Farmers of America, Falls Village (824-0243) Dumas Family Timberline Farm, Harwinton (485-1193) Highland Greenhouse, Harwinton (567-8037) Peck's Farm, Harwinton (485-1185) Bees, Fleas and Trees, Litchfield (567- 8544) Daniel Lake, Litchfield (567-3707) Meadowview Farm, Litchfield (567-9243) Mohawk Farms, Litchfield (672-6248) Ward Heinrich, Litchfield (567-0398) Anthony Tsimonis, Morris (567-0109) Auburn Timberline Farm, New Hartford (379-2483) Anniversary Farm, New Hartford (482-4971) White Oaks, New Preston (355-1078) Towill's Christmas Trees, Plymouth (283-9436) Wasley's Christmas Trees, Plymouth (283-4209) Lamont's Christmas Timberline Plantation, Riverton (379-3125) George Keifer, Salisbury (435-2677) Miller's Christmas Timberline Farm, Terryville (539-8829) Ka-Mi in the Valley, Thomaston (283- 9112) Bandbox Hill Farm, Thomaston (283- 9222) Angevine Farm, Warren (868-7226) Windy Ridge, Warren (868-2029) Averill Farm, Washington Depot (868- 2777) Starberry Farm, Washington Depot (868-2863) Anthony Calabrese, Woodbury (263-4786) Charles Lewis, Woodbury (263-4230) Churchill Gardens, Woodbury (263-3516) Clayton Gustafson, Woodbury (263-3516) Flanders Nature Center, Woodbury (263-3711). New Haven County John Leavenworth Timberline Farm, Cheshire (272-4449) R. F. Devylder, Cheshire (272-9706) Robert McKinley, Cheshire (272- 4772) Williams Christmas Trees, Cheshire (272-0392) Dumas Christmas Timberline Farm, Durham (349-3636) Bishop's Orchard, Guilford (453-6424) Humphrey Timberline Farm, Guilford (457-0689) Sam Bartlett, Guilford (457-0314) William Pinchbeck, Guilford (453-2186) Broken Arrow Nursery, Hamden (288-1026) Harris Timberline Farm, Hamden (281-6419) Hillside Christmas Trees, Arctic Guilford (457-1032) Denny Landscape and Tree, Orange (799-2766) Belinsky Farm, Oxford (888-0322) Butterbrooke Farm, Oxford (888-2000) Evergreen Farm, Prospect (758-4286) Beres, Seymour (888-3671) Drumlin Hill Timberline Farm, Southbury (264-0299) Cook Hill Farm, Wallingford (269-9334) Pillwillup Farm, Wolcott (879-0101) Truman Jones, Wolcott (879-2892). New London County Burton L. Avery Jr., Bozrah (887-2869) Evergreen, Colchester (537-2019) Reneson's Christmas Timberline Farm, Colchester (267-0448) Hathaway Greenhouses, East Lyme (739-8669) Whistletown Farm, East Lyme (739-5659) W. G. Atkinson, Gales Ferry (464-2127) May-Sky Farm, Gilman, (887-4669) William C. Spicer, Groton (445-8070) Geer Timberline Farm, Jewett City (376-5321) Philip Yurechko, Jewett City (376-2269) Ski's Trees, Lebanon (442-5686) Vartkes Ajemian, Lebanon (887-7406) Samuel W. Holdridge, Ledyard (464-8843) Bundy Hill Timberline Farm, Lisbon (887-0446) Mell Road Timberline Farm, Lisbon (376-3185) Yetter Road Timberline Farm, Mystic (536-3359) Robbins B. Smith, Arctic Franklin (642- 7209) Sawicky Farm, Arctic Franklin (642-7740) Leach's Timberline Farm, Arctic Stonington (535-0390) Benson, Norwich (822-6622) Anguilla Gardens, Pawcatuck (535-0214) Dick and Mary Muollo, Preston (887-0120) Lambert's Timberline Farm, Preston (887-8001) Maple Lane Farms, Preston (889-3766) Rolad Thayer, Salem (859-0757) Hartikka Timberline Farm, Voluntown (376-2351) Olsen's Timberline Farm, Voluntown (376-2370).
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