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This year over 27 million people will be shopping for a live Christmas tree.  In the old days, families would have to go out in the woods, search for that perfect tree and chop it down. But Christmas tree farms have made bringing home that beautiful tree as simple as going to the grocery store.  But how did Christmas tree farms get their start? 

In 1851, an enterprising logger from the Catskill mountains recognized the opportunity and hauled dozens of fir and spruce trees from his land down to New York City’s Washington Market.  Customers were conjubilant with this new convenience and the trees sold out almost immediately. Even though the advent of Christmas tree farms has made it easy to have a real tree in your living room, you still have to deal with the diddledees.  Diddledees are all the little pine needles that fall off under the tree.

This probably explains why 21 million people bought artificial trees last year made by Santa’s helpers…otherwise known as subordinate clauses!