New Year’s tree: world traditions
In the USA, as a New Year’s tree are used various kinds of firs and pine-trees. So, for example, for installation of one of the most well-known in the USA “fur-trees” - in Washington near the Capitol - since 1964 have been used 13 kinds of evergreen coniferous trees.
Among them there are such little-known for Russia, but very beautiful verieties of firs and pine-trees as Douglas fir, white pine, balsam fir, and, certainly, Colorado spruce, blue form of which decorates main entrances of each local administration in Russia. By the way, the highest alive New Year tree - 67 meters – was established in Seattle in 1950 that is fixed in Guinness Book of Records.
It is necessary to note, that various kinds of a fir and Colorado spruce beat common spruce with an external grace and fairly - they are fluffier.
It is no wonder, and it is connected not so much with the nature of a tree, but with conditions of cultivation. The majority of large western nurseries practice trimming and formation of crones long before the young tress get in shops.