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Germany is credited as the country that first started the Christmas tree tradition as it is now known. In around the 16th Century devout Christians brought evergreens into their homes and decorated them, whilst others built "Christmas Pyramids" and decorated these with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It is widely believed that Martin Luther, the 16th century protestant reformer, was the first individual to add lighted candles to a tree after he walked home on a winters evening composing a sermon, he looked up at the sky and was awed by the brilliance of the twinkling stars among the evergreen forest. He then tried to recreate this scene for his family by erecting an evergreen tree in the main room of his house wiring lighted candles to its branches.
In the 19th century the Christmas tree to most Americans was certainly an oddity with the first Christmas tree recorded as being on display being in the 1830's by German settlers in Pennsylvania, although Christmas trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier.
Community trees were established by Pennsylvania German settlements as early as 1747 but as late as 1840 were still not accepted by most Americans.
In Massachusetts a law was enacted making any observance of December the 25th (other than a church service)
a penal offence, whilst people were fined for hanging decorations, this continued until the 19th century when
there was an influx of Irish and German immigrants into the United States which undermined the puritan stance regarding Christmas and its traditions. In 1846 the popular English Queen Victoria and her German Prince
Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree
and it instantly became fashionable not only in Britain, but also with the fashion-conscious East Coast
American Society, this marked the arrival of the Christmas tree as a tradition for families.
By the 1890's Germany was exporting ornaments and the popularity of the Christmas tree was on the
rise within the U.S., whilst it was recognized in Europe smaller trees were favored, American homes
preferred floor to ceiling trees.
Most Americans in the early 20th century decorated their trees with homemade ornaments, while the
German American sects continued to use apples, marzipan cookies, and nuts. Popcorn was also
added after it was dyed bright colors and laced with berries and nuts.
With electricity came electric lighting allowing trees to shine for days on end. As soon as this
happened Christmas trees began to appear in many town squares across the country and it
soon became the American tradition it is today.
Within the United States of America, Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states including states such as Alaska, and Hawaii, some states such as Alabama have approximately 100 Christmas tree farms which average approximately 800 trees annually, whilst 95% of these Christmas tree farms in Alabama are choose and cut. Pennsylvania produces, however, much of the Christmas trees produced in the USA whilst Oregon has the most land devoted to growing Christmas trees. There are 3 main regions where Christmas trees are produced from farms within North America, the Pacific Northwest, Northeast region of Canada and the United States, and the Appalachians region of North Carolina and surrounding states.
Of the 40 million real Christmas trees sold in North America each year around 5-6 million Christmas trees are grown in Canada with Ontario markets mainly dominated by the sales of Scots Pine, and White Spruce.
During the 1970's and 1980's Christmas trees started to be produced from dedicated Christmas tree farms as opposed to natural trees harvested from the wild or produced from tops of taller trees, since this time Christmas trees have been developed as a specialized crop in order to produce maximum foliage and slow growth in order to produce the highest quality trees.
