Tannenbaum Turns 500 ; How Christmas Tree Growers Here and Around the Country Perfect the Holiday Centerpiece

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Bob Roth stands as tall as some of the trees he grows on his sprawling farm in Holland, where this marks the 17th year he has raised the evergreens that decorate so many Western New York homes.

"Raising trees is a lot of work," admitted Roth, who is 67. "We have mowing, spraying, shearing. You have to love doing it, because you don't make a lot of money. I like growing stuff."

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Tannenbaum Turns 500 ; How Christmas Tree Growers Here and Around the Country Perfect the Holiday Centerpiece

Roth started growing trees in 1993 on 25 acres of the dairy farm left to him by his father.

"I didn't want to milk cows, so I started planting Christmas trees," said Roth, standing in his barn-side gift shop wearing an Air Force One cap from the Ronald Reagan Library.

The tradition of the decorated C...

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