The founder and senior partner of the well-known seed firm of Hovey & Co., of Boston, died at his home in Cambridge on the 3rd of June, in his 81st year. He was born, in the house where he always lived and died, on 3rd of September, 1803. In 1834, he started the seed store at Cornhill, now at 16 South Market. Mr. Hovey left the seed firm in 1883, but continued till his death his interest in the Cambridge greenhouses. He was among the early founders of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society under General Dearborn's Presidency, in 1829, and had been its Vice President, and active in many official capacities. He served two terms as a member of Common Council in the city of Cambridge, and was a remarkably useful man in every relation of life, and highly esteemed by the whole community in which he lived. Mr. Phineas Brown Hovey, leaves a widow and three children. They, with his esteemed brother, Charles M. Hovey, will receive the sympathies of the whole horticultural community in whose service their long lives have been so ably dedicated.