Archive image from page 297 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam02bail Year: 1900 778 HOVEY edge of varieties. Straightway he began assiduously to collect varieties, until he exhibited pears, apples and camellias by the hundreds, and plums, grapes, chrysan- themums and many other things by the
Archive image from page 297 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam02bail Year: 1900 778 HOVEY edge of varieties. Straightway he began assiduously to collect varieties, until he exhibited pears, apples and camellias by the hundreds, and plums, grapes, chrysan- themums and many other things by the score. These things were shown before the Massachusetts Horticul- tural Socipty. which was the center of horticultural iutlueiH-f i till- '-nuntry. He raised many seedlings. TIiiiji'i lh'i;ii'i is still prized as a garden conifer. His grt-iitisi to horticultural varieties was the Hovey struH i' rry, which first fruited in 1836, and which is generally regarded as the starting-point of American commercial strawberry - growing (see Fig. 1088). For many years this berry was the standard of market excellence. i\Ir. Tlovey continued to grow it and chi-risli it until till' i-ii,l. TIh- wiitrr remembers with wlitit till lni-i:i~ III li' i\[i:ii iali-ij nil ii > \iftues but a Very few yiiir- ' I ],,< (Iriitli. .'Ml-. \ .V was long an act- ive 11M ml' r, :iiii| ' :i linn- |.r.'iiiiiit, ..£ the Massachu- setts lilt: . ii s.âKiy. He was one of the active projii'' I ' I:' I'liiliiiiig which gave the Society a new and III I â IS home. The history of the society rei-'ir' till-project was in doubt, 'the per- i :i;mI li' hrniination of the president of the society ami i-hainiiaii of the building committee, Charles M. Hovcv, triumphed over every hindrance, and carried the work on to success.' A portrait of Mr. Hovey will be found in the first vol- ume of the 'Fruits of America.' Another occurs in 'Gardeners' Monthly' for 1886 (frontispiece
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