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So I interviewed tree-seller George Smith. I requested why that is such a cutthroat business.
Smith: Cutthroats years in the past thought they owned these places, so that you now can’t put one stand close to one other. I’m from Brooklyn. Learned the old school method. At 12, I used to be a tie boy. Tying trees onto automobiles. Now I’m within the fields, choose my own trees, watch them grow. I shear them in Canada and North Carolina.
“Saying ‘a tree is a tree’ is like saying ‘sneakers are sneakers.’ There are different types, grades. Frasers last longer. Some customers leave theirs up till Valentine’s Day and put hearts on it. They’re cheapos. Also, make sure your tree guy cuts the stump, put it on your radiator so your house smells of Christmas. You know, there’s nothing like Christmas, especially in New York.”
Me: “What’s the best sort of Christmas tree?”
“I favor a Fraser, however I used to love the balsam. They drop their needles more. That’s why I say it is best to get a Fraser. Fraser needles shed much less. Last longer in the home. A tree doesn’t begin dying till it hits the heat in your home.
“I offered one to President George W. Bush for his daughter Jenna. Delivered it myself, and President Bush is on the sofa. I offered to Edie Falco, Jimmy Fallon. Some chisel. Bush’s daughter tried to chew me down essentially the most. And we’d given her a discount. It takes to get a 7-foot tree, eight years.
“We’re on twenty third and Second Avenue. I offered a 15-foot yesterday in Gramercy Park. $950, 15 toes. Took it on a sleigh. We received Santa to take it there. Then give it one thing to drink. Room-temperature water. Don’t make it scorching. And you’d be good to go.
“Manhattan elevators are small. Yesterday, we had to cut one down in the hallway. They wanted a 12-footer, and the elevator could only fit 11 ¹/₂. We had to cut it.”
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Me: “How much are your trees? How about if I get one? If you are going to schlep an 8- or 9-foot tree through my silk living room, I am gonna smack you in the head.”
Smith: “Kiss me at the end because it’d be perfect.”
Me: “Can I get a crappy tree up in my elevator to my apartment?”
Smith: “We have a white glove service. Let me come to your house. I’ll bring the tree myself.”
Problem with a tree-seller is, for those who don’t like his reward — how are you able to exchange it?
Only in New York, youngsters, solely in New York.
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