Helen & Ed's Tree Farm
Wapwallopen PA
2015

In business since 1957, we are a 220 acre tree farm located in Dorrance Township, Pennsylvania.

We grow evergreens and deciduous plants for the cut and landscape market. Wholesale and retail buyers are welcome. Varieties of evergreens include Colorado Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce, White Spruce, Serbian Spruce, White Pine, Hemlock, Canaan fir, Douglas, Fraser, Concolor and
Balsam Fir.


https://www.helenandedstreefarm.com/

Our farm was originally purchased in 1954 by my
parents Helen and Ed Myslowski. Dad grew up on
a farm not far from the one purchased (which at
that time was a dairy farm). At the young age of
18, during WWII, he enlisted in the army. He traveled
through Europe, helping to reclaim it from the German
occupation. At first he was on a team firing Howitzer
shells at enemy targets, but since he spoke fluent
Polish, his commanders requested that he also learn to
speak German. With a little class time and practice,
he left the battlefield to become an interpreter.


https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/christmas-trees

Christmas Trees might well have started out as 'Paradise Trees' (branches or wooden frames decorated with apples). These were used in medieval German Mystery or Miracle Plays that were acted out in front of Churches during Advent and on Christmas Eve. In early church calendars of saints, 24th December was Adam and Eve's day. The Paradise Tree represented the Garden of Eden. It was often paraded around the town before the play started, as a way of advertising the play. The plays told Bible stories to people who could not read.

Christmas Trees as they came to be now started around the late 1400s into the 1500s. In what's now Germany (was the Holy Roman Empire then), the Paradise Tree had more decorations on it (sometimes communion wafers, cherries and later pastry decorations of stars, bells, angels, etc. were added) and it even got a new nickname the 'Christbaum' or 'Christ Tree'.