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Now is not a good time to pick out a Christmas tree. There are too many yellow leaves. Evergreen trees, like deciduous trees, lose their leaves, except evergreens drop some of their older leaves and retain the younger ones for a year or longer.

White pines, for example, keep their leaves (called needles because of their shapes) for two-to-three years. Needles produced in 2015 will not die and fall off the tree until 2018. The time when pine needles yellow, then turn brown, and eventually drop off is about the same time deciduous trees are dropping leaves. That's usually late September throu...