. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 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 MassE " &
. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 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 MassE " " ". tural Society, which was the center of horticultural influence of the country. He raised many seedlings. Thuya Uoveyi is still prized as a garden conifer. His greatest contribution to horticultural varieties was the Hovey strawberry, 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. Mr. Hovey continued to grow it and cherish it until the end. The writer remembers with what enthusiasm he expatiated on its virtues but a very few years before his death. Mr. Hovey was long an act- ive member, and for a time president, of the Massachu- setts Horticultural Society. He was one of the active projectors of the building which gave the Society a new and more commodious home. The history of the society records that, when the project was in doubt, "the per- severance and determination of the president of the society and chairman of the building committee, Charles M. Hovey, triumphed over every hindrance, and carried the work on to ; 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) and "American Garden," Nov., 1887; and a reduction of this appears in Fig. 1106. L. jj. g. H6W
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