THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE MARKET LAUNCHED IN 1851. 1851年出现了第一

陈小将

One thing slowing the adoption of Christmas trees was the burden most families faced of having to find and chop down their own trees. That began to change in 1851, when a logger from New York’s Catskill Mountains loaded dozens of fir and spruce trees from his land and hauled them down to New York City’s Washington Market. The harvested trees, ready to set in a living room and decorate, sold out fast and kicked off the practice of Christmas tree farms, which proliferated throughout the country.
过去圣诞树在美国的接受度不太高，因为多数家庭不得不自己去寻找和砍伐圣诞树。1851年这种情况开始改变了，当时纽约州卡茨基尔山上的一个樵夫从自己的土地上砍了数十棵冷杉和云杉树拉到纽约市华盛顿市场上去卖，供人们放在客厅里自行装饰。这些树很快就卖光了，自此圣诞树林场开始兴起，后来遍布美国各地。