How does Buddy's cousin show that the tree they have cut down is special?

In Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,” Buddy’s cousin has firm ideas about the attributes of their Christmas tree even before they cut it down. To make the tree special, she wants it to be twice as tall as a boy Buddy’s size, thick enough to take “thirty hatchet strokes” to fell, and it must make a loud noise as it falls. They struggle to drag the tree home but receive many compliments while they do....

In Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,” Buddy’s cousin has firm ideas about the attributes of their Christmas tree even before they cut it down. To make the tree special, she wants it to be twice as tall as a boy Buddy’s size, thick enough to take “thirty hatchet strokes” to fell, and it must make a loud noise as it falls. They struggle to drag the tree home but receive many compliments while they do. The reader can tell that the tree is special to the cousin when she refuses to tell others the exact location they found it and more importantly, she refuses to sell the tree. Money is something the two struggle all year to acquire but the tree is theirs, and she will not accept money even though she is often afraid to say “no” to others. When the woman, who wants to buy the tree, says they can get another tree, Buddy’s cousin says, "I doubt it. There's never two of anything."

Buddy’s cousin wants the tree to be beautifully decorated. The tree is so special that Buddy and his cousin spend days making ornaments to decorate its boughs. They draw, color, and cut each ornament because they do not have money to buy them. Another way you can tell that the tree is special is that Buddy’s cousin saves cotton picked during the summer to make the tree look like it is draped in snow. When they are finished decorating she exclaims, "Now honest, Buddy. Doesn't it look good enough to eat!"