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Title: Annual report
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: (Ocean Grove, N.J.) : Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Contributing Library: New Jersey State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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THE UNITED STATES.
N. W. Corner Main and Beach-Avenue.
William Orr, Proprietor.

Tree Planting Day. More and more, as the years go by, this pleasant and beautiful festivity
becomes important. The old trees die, and unless we continue to plant,
our grounds, now so interesting and attractive, will become nude and
barren. What would our Main Avenue now be but that a few years ago
lines of maples, but little larger in diameter than your thumb, were set
out on either side, and now developed into majestic trees, which are the
admiration of all who enter our grounds.

TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. 21

Let me exhort all who own property at Ocean Grove to see to it that
the years do not pass without attention to this important and beautiful
work. Fifty trees were, bought last year. Twenty-one were set out for
private parties, and the balance on Association grounds.
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SPRAY BATH.

Parks.

The public parks, being resorts of many thousands during the summer
season, are all important, and the wisdom of their creation is more andmore apparent.
THOMPSON PARK slowly improves, but an advance on this line is
greatly needed. Still, rustic as it is, it accommodates a transient multi-
tude every day, which, but for this, would be at a loss where to go or
what to do.

22 OCEAN GROVE, N. J.

GREENLEAF PARK is much improved by concrete walks diagonally
and all around. It is a play ground for many happy children and young

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