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Kennedy's Guide to Picking the Perfect Christmas Tree 08
Variety Fragrance Needle Retention Shape Holds Ornaments Color Comments            Grower  
Fraser Fir Good Excellent Okay Excellent Silver Green  Holds Needles very well, good fragrance.  Our most popular tree. Canadian Grown  
Balsam Fir Excellent Fair Good Good Dark Green Most Fragrant and Very Popular Canadian Grown  
Canaan Fir Good Good Good Good Green New Hybrid, Characteristics of Balsam and Fraser Firs.  Few! New England Grown  
Grand Fir Excellent Good Excellent Good Shiny Green Unique glossy needles, Nice citrus fragrance, perfect shapes,               A Kennedy's favorite Oregon Grown  
Concolor Fir Faint Excellent Average Good Blue Green Barely drops a needle. Nice color.  Most customers come back and ask for them the following year.   Oregon Grown  
Douglas Fir Faint Good Excellent Okay Light Green Our Full Figured Model.
Great shape.
New England Grown  
Noble Fir Faint Excellent Good Excellent Blue Green Great color and superior needle
retention. Premium tree.           Hard to find.
New England Grown  
Blue Spruce Some like,
some don't
Okay Excellent Excellent Light Green Perfect shapes. A tad prickly.
Make sure smell agrees with you.
New England Grown  

Written by Chris Kennedy of Kennedy's Country Gardens

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