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NEW JERSEY SYMBOLS
State flower: violet
State bird: eastern goldfinch
State tree: red oak
State bug: honey bee
State animal: horse
State dinosaur: hadrosaurus
State fish: brook trout
State shell: knobbed whelk
State fruit: blueberry
State ship: A.J. Meerwald, a
Delaware Bay oyster schooner
State folk dance: square dance
The flag was adopted in 1896
Official color: buff with dark blue
What the New Jersey seal means —
Helmet and horse head: represent New Jersey's
independence as a state
Liberty: woman holding a staff with a liberty cap
represents freedom
Ceres: woman on the right is the Roman goddess of
grain holding a cornucopia filled with the fruits and
vegetables produced in New Jersey
Shield: shows three plows which symbolize the
agricultural tradition of the state
Scroll: the state's motto, "Liberty and Prosperity," and
the year N.J. became a state, 1776
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