. 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. 1105. Bluets—Houstonia caemlea 1X^2)- (See Houstonia, p. 777.) tural Society, which was the center of horticultural influence of the country. He raised many seedlings. Thuya Hovi^yl is still prized as a garden conifer. His greatest contribution to horticultural varieties was tbe Hovey strawberry, which first fr
. 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. 1105. Bluets—Houstonia caemlea 1X^2)- (See Houstonia, p. 777.) tural Society, which was the center of horticultural influence of the country. He raised many seedlings. Thuya Hovi^yl is still prized as a garden conifer. His greatest contribution to horticultural varieties was tbe Hovey strawberry, which first fruited in 183f>, 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 virtxics Jiut a very few years befori_i 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 liuilding whi(di 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 liuilding committee, Charles M. Hovey, triumphed over every hindrance, and carried the work on to ; A portrait of Mr. Hovey will be found in the lirst vol- ume of the "Fi'uits of ; Another occurs in "Gardeners' j\lonthly" for 188(1 (frontis7>iece) and "American Garden," Nov., 1887; and a reduction of this appears in Fig. IIOG. L_ jj 3 HOWEA (named for Lord Howe's Island, where these 2 species grow). Also written Hoiwia. Pah/iclcea'. A genus of only 2 species, known I0 the trade as Kentias, and certainly ranking among the G most popular palms for house culture. They have the ha
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