Post-Bulletin: Antiques & Collectibles: Need a tree topper? Here's your finial answer
Before we can collect it, we have to know what it is. So, what is a tree finial? A tree finial is a Christmas tree topper that looks like a glass exclamation point. German-made, hand-blown, glass ...
Monsters and Critics: Christmas at the Plaza: What is a ‘finial d’arbre’ tree topper?
Town & Country: The 20 Best Christmas Tree Topper Ideas to Finish Your Decorating
Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. There’s something almost theatrical about the moment the tree topper goes ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...