Rockefeller Christmas Tree donor thought team was ‘joking’ when they asked for her spruce

Source: New York Post

Yes, this is fir real. The New York woman who donated her 75-year-old Norway spruce to serve as this year’s Rockefeller Christmas Tree thought she was being pranked when the Manhattan garden team came knocking. Rebecca Decker was thrown even further into disbelief when tree boss Erik Pauze revealed he had been eyeing the 76-foot-tall evergreen even before she bought the property it stands on.