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Axel Erlandson (December 15, 1884 – April 28, 1964) was a Swedish American farmer who shaped trees as a hobby, and opened a horticultural attraction in 1947 called "The Tree Circus", [1] advertised with the slogan "See the World's Strangest Trees Here". [2] The trees appeared in the column of Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not! twelve times ...
Reading Rainbow is an American educational children's television series that originally aired on PBS and afterward PBS Kids from July 11, 1983 [1] [2] to November 10, 2006, with reruns continuing to air until August 28, 2009. 155 30-minute episodes were produced over 23 seasons.
Cut evergreen trees were used in 1923 and from 1954 to 1972. Living trees were used from 1924 to 1953, and again from 1973 to the present (2011). In the list below, the height of the cut tree is the height of the tree when raised at the White House. The height of the living tree is the height when it was first planted.
According to The Guardian, Jami Warner, the executive director of the American Christmas Tree Association said that 84 percent of the 94 million people displaying Christmas trees in 2021 were ...
Davis, Richard C. Encyclopedia of American forest and conservation history (1983) vol 1 online see also 2 online, 871pp. See online review of this book; Defebaugh, James Elliott. History of the lumber industry of America (1907) classic older history; covers US and Canada online; Eyle, Alexandra.
During winter solstice, Ancient Egyptians and Romans would adorn their homes with branches from evergreen trees, admiring the trees ability to keep its green hue all year-round.
Most of these plants have true roots and leaves, and many were quite tall. The tree-like Archaeopteris, ancestral to the gymnosperms, and the giant cladoxylopsid trees had true wood. These are the oldest known trees of the world's first forests. Prototaxites was the fruiting body of an enormous fungus that stood more than 8 meters tall. By the ...
Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting [1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia.