. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 778 HOVEY edge of varieties. Straiglitway lie began assiduously to collect varieties, until he exhibited pears, apples and camellias by the hundreds, and plums, grapes, chrysan- theniuras and many other things by the
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 778 HOVEY edge of varieties. Straiglitway lie began assiduously to collect varieties, until he exhibited pears, apples and camellias by the hundreds, and plums, grapes, chrysan- theniuras and many other things by the score. These things were shown before the Massachusetts Horticul-. 1105. BluetsâHoustonn c trulea (X^d). (bee Houstoma, p 777 ) tural Society, which was the center of horticultural influence of the country. He raised many seedlings. Thuya Soveyi 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 J[r. novcy i tinned to grow it and cherish it unlil tlir ind. Tlic wiitrr remembers with what enthusiasm lir i \|.,itiatril .m iis virtues but a very few years befure his dLalh. Mr. UovLy 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. Tin- liisfnry nf tlir snciety records that, when the project was in il-iuiit. 'thr per- severance and determination of llu- jT'siiit ni uf tlie society and chairman of the building couiuiittcu, 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 ; Another occurs in "Gardeners' Monthly&quo
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