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You must be waiting eagerly for the Christmas and must be busy making plans. Christmas tree is an obvious item on your shop-list. Christmas tree has its own unique value and elegance.  How about having a picture-perfect-Christmas-tree  this year?

According to a recently conducted consumer survey there are typical most important factors that determine customer’s choices. Shape of the Christmas tree is the most important among all such factors. Other factors include needle retention, species, and the price.

Conventionally, Americans generally like dense varieties of the Christmas tree. Europeans, on the other hand, prefer more natural and ‘open’ Christmas tree varieties. Open trees provide enough space to hang ornaments. Compared to the dense varieties there is almost 75% more capacity to hold decorations in the ‘open- tree’ varieties. Open trees are far lighter than to the dense varieties. American consumers also look for beautiful, long-lasting Christmas trees.

American consumers also prefer “Fraser-Fir” as Christmas tree simply because of its typical conical shape, dark green foliage, its aroma, and excellent needle retention capacity. Owing to these qualities the “Fraser-fir” trees are now gaining extreme popularity among all American consumers.

Based on the public likings and its typical characteristics, Christmas tree growers and scientists are busy shaping the “Fraser-fir” tree. An innovative “shearing-technique” has been evolved by the scientists that will be helpful in shaping the ‘Fraser-fir’ tree in to an elegant Christmas tree. This technique is based on a specific tool named “Top-Stop-Nipper (TSN)”. The TSN is a typical four bladed, hand -held tool and it can be used to reduce the dense growth of Christmas trees.

If TSN is combined with typical conventional ‘knife -shearing’ or ‘growth-regulator-mechanism’ it will be a new technique with which dense tree with minimum shearing can be produced. This technique will produce an ‘open-tree’ with layered natural sequence and an elegant appearance. It is an easy way to convert American styled dense Christmas trees in to typical English-style ‘open -Christmas-trees.

This new technique will help producers and consumers to have more variations among Christmas trees with long-term appearance, better quality, and enhanced market profitability of lesser known ‘Fraser-fir‘ trees to become the picture-perfect-Christmas-trees.

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