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The collection of plants contains grand old speci- 

 mens, which are the result of many years of patience 

 and toil. Some of the Chinese and other palms are 

 fifty years old and twelve feet high. Here was early 

 commenced the hybridization of plants, by which 

 have been produced some of the most remarkable 

 Camellias our country can boast of : such as Mrs. Anne 

 Marie Hovey, Charles M. Hovey, Charles H. Hovey, 

 and others, for some of which they received the gold 

 medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and 

 also a first class certificate by the London Horticultural 

 Society. Many of these Mr. C. M. Hovey exhibited in 

 London, in person. The Camellia house of Hovey & 

 Co. is one hundred feet long, forty feet wide and twenty- 

 five feet high, and it contains some of the largest 

 Camellias in the country, all planted in the ground. 

 Here are twenty other houses for the growth of plants. 



The collection of Hovey & Co. contains hundreds of 

 species and varieties of ornamental trees and shrubs, 

 among which are remarkable specimens of elegant and 

 curious trees worthy of the long life which it has taken 

 to produce them. Mr. C. M. Hovey, for four years pres- 

 ident of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, was 

 the editor of the Magazine of Horticulture for thirty- 

 four years, the whole period of its existence. These 

 volumes contain a vast amount of horticultural and 

 kindred matter, and as books of reference are of very 

 great value to all lovers of the art. Triumphing over 

 all obstacles, and working with a zeal that never tires, 

 he still lives to promote the great cause to which he 

 has devoted his life. 



The city of Newton, with her eight villages, and 

 with a numerous population of active business 

 people has made, perhaps, as great advances in horti- 

 cultural science, as any other area of the same size 



