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:4,£ 5: Boast Proud a Many Year* w ^ »s » r. v , £ bundles of Montana „ v 'f^Mdl from refrigerated And the mountainof the West, make their nee as concrete evidence j ^ .w approaching Christmas. , The majority of these slim t.^rees were grown expressly for 'n this purpose. In possessing a ^.ree for Christmas we seldom |»lp to denude a forest or destroy k, potential timber crop for most ©f these conifers were planted „ ^ ftnd grown in comparatively r * *.Aploae quarters on old cut-over land or once-burned mountain v^f. Slopes and they were intended tor the holiday trade. I ? This is the tree which, long V-"' ag0 in 1791, Sir Archibald Men- •ijics discovered when he explored " |he wild shores of Vancouver *'*" Island. The tree had no namt ' ; j, find he evidently gave it none. jKot until tee ardent botanical ^ explorer, David Douglas, redis- Covered the tree which now * • fears his name, was this unique •onifer really examined and made known. In 1827 it was taken to England where it be- _____ ame a much-admired ornamental evergreen. From the beginning, Douglas's , tree puzzled, the botanists. It had lb many conflicting characteristics that scientists were at a loss as to where to classify It December,, among the conifers. Eventually it was discovered that there were only three specios in the world, two in western North America and one in Japan, and that the tree which they named False Hemlock with Yew-like Needles (Pseudotsuga taxifolia > wjs neither a yew nor a hemlock, nor was it a spruce or a fir, yet it maintained some of | the characteristics of all four, j This was confusing enough, j but in addition the cones of the J Douglas tree were like nothing anyone had seen. They were oval, pendulous, sofa cones with curious little tliree-pronged flags thrusting from each of the scales. The old botanical name still remains appended to the tree which David Douglas found, but commonly it is known ay® the Dongias tree. In the Christmas trade, however, it i£ known as Montana fir. Its soft, blue-green needles surrounding the upturned twigs may remain on the living tree from five to eight years; and even indoors in a heated house, and without water, the tree may hold its needles from St. Nicholas Day to Epiphany. This characteristic alone endears the Montana fir to all who want the perfect Christmas tree. At its meagerest, a Douglas tree may, be a Una whip of a tree on a Rocky Mountain slope, and at ita best it may rise over four hundred feet into rarefied air, the tallest trees in the world, possess a trunk diameter of ' over twenty feet, bear plates of j ruddy bark a foot thick, and at- j tain an age of 750 years -- not singly, but as a great, almost pure stand of magnificent trees. It is the most valuable and useful timber tree in the West where it replaces pines and harder woods for lumber. Yet it is a beautiful and easily grown ornamental tree for parks and estates over much of America and contributes ypunger brothers as holiday trees to be brought into homes and ornamented with j traditional glass balls and f ea-| toons of popcorn. STRICTLY FIUESH pi Boston, the FCC hat warned operators of small boats tflainsl the use of profane on their ship-to-shore radios. ~ The ruling is probably for land's sake! • • • Superstitious officials in Grand Rapids, Mich., will number the thirteenth firehouse No. J|t. Wonder if the smoke-eateni are allowed to walk under ladders? A New York fashiod designer has designed diamond JeMiy that clings to bare skin. The outlook is bright for lieavy sales in nudist camps. Want Ada, like i everybody's business. 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EASTMAN BROWNIE HAWKEYE FLASH $1425 GO OOOO Zippo Windproof Lighter. • s • 13.50 Genuine Leather Billfolds . . a $2.00 Beautiful New Compacts . • • a $1.49 Rogers Tobacco Pouch . . s a $1.00 Military Brush Sets. . a . e a $1.9$ Men's Zipper Toilet Kit . . a a $1.00 Paper Mate Desk Pen . • • a $4.95 Baby Ben Alarm Clock . . a • $5.95 Earring Sets . . . ... • • Si .oo Plastic Kleenex Dispenser . s s 98c "Wo, */IO H «uLul,°n locals "i vrr wi"> *100 ord w Remember Baby Tool JOHNSON'S Santa Clau* 8IFT SET y* B»by Oil, Soap Lotion Talc and Cream 1 X $295 f 1 i She' Bishop J., * Coty'* BUSTWG fflWKR SHOW BOW 98C SHEAFFER SNORKEL Fountain Pen Fill* Ea.ily Without Messy Finger*. *750, Weatdox Electric GLO-LARM Ea*y to Read in the Dark. cSeU Start"in g $895> s'll Use Hazel LIPSTICK Three 75c Tubes Boxed for < Giving i'l Lc Neckties . . a wide selection; ' the kind he'd choose for himself $2.00 to $2.50 HATS and HAT CERTIFICATES (Stetson A Portia) $7.50 IPORT COATS Rayon and Wool $19.95 to $35.00 JACKETS All T?I». $10.95 TO $35.00 Also leather 8c Suedfli; Mufflers & Scarf* White and "BOTANY" Wool! to $12.50 Sir **&Ci *5, Canasta Cards Bridge Tallies, Christmas Dasiga. . 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