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Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 23, 1992
December 22, 1992
December 24, 1992
Transcript:
Okay, let's get one thing straight... I know you guys have a huge profit margin on these trees so don't think that you're dealing with some amateur impulse buyer here. I think Zoe likes this one. Name your price.
Sherlock5 4 months ago
I don’t think the profit margin is nearly what Darryl supposes. Evergreens do not grow fast and it takes approx. 8-10 years of watering and other care for them to reach a decent 6-foot Christmas tree size.
In the early years of my marriage we would visit a particular tree farm because they had white pines. After a few years, however, they shut down because they sold so many trees of all varieties and the slow growth affected their available crop.