Christmas Trees

Genetic Improvement of Christmas Trees

While seed source selection is an important initial step in the genetic improvement of Christmas trees, continuously returning to seed collections from natural stands precludes any further improvement in genetic quality. In addition, the genetic variation within most seed sources is tremendous and varies from year to year. In order for the Christmas tree industry to move past the current level ...

Forecasting of Cut Christmas Trees with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)

The establishment of Christmas tree plantations over the last 50 years in Greece has provided an additional income for the inhabitants of certain mountainous and semi-mountainous regions of the country and contributed to their development. In this paper is used a neural network which combined with ARIMA which makes forecast of number of actually cut Christmas trees until the year 2015.

Christmas Days

Some of the achievements at festivities and exhibitions are greeted with surprise. It is not always possible to have the privilege of personal inspection, though those in charge of defectives are usually most ready to give of their precious leisure in showingvisitors what is being done.. The following notes giving different accounts of Christmas activities have been kindly sent to us. They may ...

Christmas disease.

Holiday Trees and Seasons Greetings: The Battle of Words in the “War on Christmas”

on his evening television talk show. Discussing the holiday greetings used by employees of several national retailers, the two sternly agreed that the replacement of the phrase " Merry Christmas " with the generic " Happy Holidays " is not an innocent or isolated gesture; rather, as O'Reilly remarked, " it's all part of the secular progressive agenda " (" O'Reilly's "). For those unfamiliar wit...