Each year, 33 to 36 million Christmas trees are produced in America, and 50 to 60 million are produced in Europe. We'll walk you through the step-by-step process below and offer tips for removing common stains on suede footwear.

But towards the end of the nineteenth century, in the weatherboard halls of a few townships, a tree would annually be set up, usually on Christmas Eve. The eight-pointed star became a popular manufactured Christmas ornament around the 1840s and many people place a star on the top of their Christmas tree to represent the Star of Bethlehem. The United States' National Christmas Tree has been lit each year since 1923 on the South Lawn of the White House, becoming part of what evolved into a major holiday event at the White House. The gifts decorated the trees as ornaments and the children were given tickets with numbers that matched the gifts.

The Germans set up a paradise tree in their homes on 24 December, the religious feast day of Adam and Eve. The tree was ornamented with gifts for the children who formed a circle about it and sung the song "Oats and Beans". In some cases management of Christmas tree crops can result in poor habitat since it sometimes involves heavy input of pesticides. This discrepancy was corrected in 1918, by the fledgling Bolshevik regime, but Christmas never reverted to December 25th in Russia, because the Bolsheviks began a systematic campaign to phase out traditional religious holidays and replace them with Soviet ones.

They had not yet spread down the social scale though, as a report from Berlin in 1858 contrasts the situation there where "Every family has its own" with that of Britain, where Christmas trees were still the preserve of the wealthy or the "romantic". The ceremony of the Christmas tree, so well known throughout Germany, bids fair to be welcomed among us, with the other festivities of the season, especially now the Queen, within her own little circle, has set the fashion, by introducing it on the Christmas Eve in her own regal palace. Never use a blow dryer, direct sunlight, or other heat sources to shorten the drying time; this can cause the material to dry out and harden.In many areas, it has become customary to set up one's Christmas tree on Advent Sunday, the first day of the Advent season.

With the Christmas tree being prohibited in accordance with Soviet anti-religious legislation, people supplanted the former Christmas custom with New Year's trees.

Poor families in Lewisham and similar districts are just as particular about the shape of their trees as people in Belgravia . A 2008 United States Environmental Protection Agency report found that as the PVC in artificial Christmas trees aged it began to degrade. in 723 Saint Boniface encountered winter sacrifices being conducted in front of a mighty oak tree dedicated to Thor near Geismar, in what is now Germany. Boniface said, "let this tree be the symbol of the true God, its leaves are ever green and will not die. Tree worship was common among the pagan Europeans and survived their conversion to Christianity in the Scandinavian customs of decorating the house and barn with evergreens at the New Year to scare away the devil and of setting up a tree for the birds during Christmas time.