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Hovey was born and spent nearly all his life in Cambridge, Massachussets in 1810. He was the son of Phineas Brown and Sarah (Stone) Hovey and a descendant of Daniel Hovey who came from England and settled at Ipswich, Massachussets, about 1635.
Charles Hovey graduated from the Cambridge Academy in 1824.
In 1832, with his brother Phineas, established a nursery at Cambridge which remained his principal interest until his death. In 1834 he made his greatest single contribution to horticulture in the origination of the Hovey strawberry, the first named variety of any fruit produced in North America by a definite plan of plant breeding, and the first important North American variety in the present type of large-fruited strawberries. Until its introduction, dependence had been placed on European varieties which were nearly all failures under American conditions.
The financial returns to Hovey from the sale of his seedling, as well as the excellent quality of the fruit, encouraged fruit growers everywhere so markedly that strawberry growing became an important phase of horticulture before the middle of the century, and the breeding of new varieties of other fruits was stimulated. Through the experience obtained from his nursery and from his extensive private collection of pears, apples, plums, grapes, and ornamentals maintained on his grounds at Cambridge, Hovey became an acknowledged authority on varieties of fruit and ornamentals.
He is best known, however, as the editor of The American Gardener's Magazine and Register, which, with his brother, he founded in 1835. In 1837 the name was changed to The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and all Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, with Charles M. Hovey as editor. The first writings of the famous horticulturist Marshall P. Wilder, and the first American articles of Peter Henderson, horticulturist, seedsman, and writer, appeared in its pages, and for a long time it was the only horticultural journal on the continent. Hovey continued it until 1868.
He published also two complete volumes and part of a third entitled Fruits of America, purposing to give "richly colored figures and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States. " This work was issued in parts from 1847 to 1856, though the title-page of the first complete volume bears the date 1852. The volumes are handsomely printed and contain more than a hundred colored plates of various varieties of fruit which were sketched from nature by Hovey himself. His writings are characterized by the spirit of accuracy and conservatism on the whole. The "strawberry war" waged from 1842 to 1848 between Hovey and Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, as principals, was one of the particularly exciting periods of his life, although in this affair both combatants were somewhat in error regarding sex in strawberries.
He is remembrered as a nurseryman, seed merchant, journalist and author of horticultural books best known for his two-volume large quarto, The Fruits of America published between 1848 and 1856 and containing some 100 chromolithographs by William Sharp, the British-born lithographer and artist, with an extremely rare third volume which was partly published.
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Hovey was a member of the American Pomological Society and its vice-president from Massachusetts for many years. He joined the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1843, four years after its establishment, and at one time or another held nearly every office in that organization, being president from 1863 to 1866.
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Theassachusetts Horticultural Society's tribute to him following his death at Cambridge stated that "considering his long life devoted exclusively to this pursuit, it may be doubted whether any other man in this country has done so much to stimulate a love of horticulture in all its branches. "
Hovey was married on December 25, 1835, to Anna Maria Chaponil, at Cambridge.
