PARIS (Reuters) - A heatwave that hit France this summer could return to haunt the French at Christmas in 2008 because a million newly planted Christmas trees perished in the scorching temperatures."In five or six years time, we will feel the shortage of about one million trees that should have been harvested then but were destroyed this summer," Frederic Naudet, president of the AFSNN association for natural Christmas trees, said Friday.
The five or six million fir trees that the French will buy to hang their decorations on this Christmas were mostly unaffected by the lack of rain and the heat, which rocketed to over 104 Fahrenheit.
