- These are trees from our "Charlie Brown" collection.
[chuckes]
We annually sell about 150 or 200 of these.
This is a balsam fir.
Very similar to the sheered balsam
I showed you before,
only this is the top of a tree growing
at a site that's very alkaline,
where the soil is very alkaline.
This is a year s worth of growth.
They don't grow very fast.
The needles are almost petrified.
They don't fall off.
You could probably have this in your house
for six months and
the needles wouldn't fall off.
Because it's the top of the tree,
the cones are here on the top.
And on a fir tree,
cones don't fall off as full cones.
They fall apart and the seeds drop off.
And these little spikes here are the cone stems
from this and previous years.
People that want them come from miles and miles to get them.
We have customers that come from Sheboygan to buy these.
It's almost closer for them to go to Door County,
but this is the top out of a bigger tree and
the bottom is of course sold for pulp.