WATCH: The Capitol Christmas tree arrives in Washington, D.C. to kickoff holiday season

A crimson spruce from North Carolina would be the Capitol Christmas Tree this 12 months in Washington.

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“This 12 months, we’re honored to have this crimson spruce nicknamed Ruby from the Pisgah Nationwide Forest in Western North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains,” mentioned the Director on the Capitol Grounds and Arboretum, James Kaufman. “We’ll set the tree into the West Entrance Garden. Our Capitol Grounds and Arboretum staff will spend the subsequent a number of days adorning the tree with hundreds of LED bulbs useful and hand-crafted ornaments from North Carolina communities.”

The tree arrived on Friday morning after making a journey from North Carolina, by Virginia and into the Nation’s capital.

The Nationwide Forests in North Carolina was accountable for the transport and regard “Ruby” as a particular tree that’s a part of a program to revive crimson spruces to the Appalachian forests.

“We’ve collected cones from Ruby and different timber like her in order that we are able to plant hundreds and hundreds of extra crimson spruce within the southern Appalachian Mountains,” mentioned Forest Supervisor for the Nationwide Forests in North Carolina, James Melonas. “Ruby’s journey doesn’t finish right here on the Capitol. We’re going to have the ability to take the wooden from Ruby, convey it again to western North Carolina, to native instrument makers who will likely be making guitars and banjos from the wooden, and we’ll be donating them to communities in western North Carolina.”