Gary Chastagner, a Washington State University professor called "Dr. Christmas Tree" shows an example of a less-desirable tree due to fewer top branches, grown in a small plantation of Turkish fir ...
Fraser fir is the classic Christmas tree — popular, shapely, with great needle retention and strong, silvery branches. It's the Cadillac of the cut-your-own tree lot. But what would it take to send ...
Gary Chastagner, a Washington State University professor called "Dr. Christmas Tree" shows an example of a less-desirable tree due to fewer top branches, grown in a small plantation of Turkish fir ...
Gary Chastagner, a Washington State University professor called "Dr. Christmas Tree," shows Turkish fir trees grown from seedlings to find ways to produce disease and insect-resistant Christmas trees ...
Christmas tree farmers in the North Carolina mountains are experimenting with trees from Turkey that they hope will help in the fight against a damaging pathogen. A destructive rot called Phytophthora ...
CHICAGO — Christmas tree breeder Jim Rockis knows what it looks like when one dies long before it can reach a buyer. Rockis farms trees in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where he and other producers ...