Christmas tree, Canada 1781
Canada issued a series of three postage stamps in 1981 to celebrate
“The 200th Anniversary of the First Illuminated Christmas Tree in Canada”
The candle lit tree from 1781 is decorated with apples, pears and pine cones.
The photos I am posting, although not from Canada but Bulgaria, are of Pinus
peuce, Macedonian pine, please correct me if I identified the tree incorrectly.
I picked up the cones, which look very suitable for including in Christmas decorations. on mount Vitosha, Sofia.
This tree grows from the extreme north of Greece to the extreme south west of Serbia.
Not a tree to be found in Mediterranean gardens and no mention in
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN , however, nearly every issue mentions pine trees