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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



HOW VINELAND HONORS HER HEROES. 



One of the most unique memorial tree settings in the country is at Vineland, New Jersey. The memorial 

 spot is the center of a forty acre tract. -The trees have all been registered with the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion. There is a circle of forty old tulip trees, seventy feet high. This circle is nearly a thousand feet in circum- 

 ference. It is planted with tulip trees. Four streets extending from different sections of the city intersect 

 with a circular driveway outside the coping. This is a natural setting which Vineland was fortunate in having 

 had by systematic tree planting and parking fifty years ago. Within this circle the memorial was built. Twenty- 

 two evergreen trees, Koster Blue Spruce and Douglas Fir were planted alternately in an inner circle, each tree 

 personifying a soldier or sailor who gave his life in the World War. Each tree is designated by a granite marker 

 fourteen inches wide and eighteen inches long and twenty inches high. A bronze plate attached to the beveled 

 top of the marker bears the name, age, and data relative to the army or naval service, and place and date of 

 death of each soldier and sailor. 



A cement walk runs around the circle close to the markers. From this walk the inscriptions may be read. Cement 

 walks lead from the four entrances to the center where there is a flower bed fifteen feet in diameter. At the 

 south entrance there is a granite stone seven feet high, bearing the dedicatory inscription in bronze. 



The memorial was designed by Wilbur H. Fenton, City Florist, and was built under the personal supervision 

 of Walter II. Blake, President of the City Beautiful Committee, into whose keeping the memorial has been placed 

 by the city officials for preservation. The scheme was financed by popular subscriptions by the Diamond Social 

 Club, and so universal was the response for funds, that the whole community feels a personal interest in it. The 

 cost was less than five thousand dollars. 



Visitors from twenty different states have all said that it is unlike any other memorial, and prettier than any 

 they have seen. Vineland is therefore proud of the evident fact that it has the most unique and beautiful of tree 

 memorials. 



