Source: Joe Marusak, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/13/18


The grower of the 19 1/2-foot-tall Fraser fir that will be displayed at the White House beginning Monday admits he almost abandoned it. The tree didn’t seem to be doing as well as others on his Mountain Top Fraser Fir farm in Newland, Avery County, Larry Smith told The Charlotte Observer in a phone interview Tuesday night. “It hadn’t been trimmed the last couple of years,” he said. “I’d basically abandoned it.”

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