His Howard 17 (Premier) variety is the ancestor of most American strawberries today.
He wrote many horticultural articles for the New England Homestead, the leading agricultural paper of that time.
Maynard, a close friend of Howard, was the first horticulture professor of Massachusetts.
Howard's son, Everett, joined the effort to develop a variety of plants.
In 1929, the American Pomological Society gave the Marshall Wilder Medal for notable fruit varieties to A.B.