Ambroise Verschaffelt

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Ambroise Verschaffelt (1825–1886) was a distinguished Belgian horticulturist and author. He founded the L'Illustration Horticole at Ghent in 1854 and introduced many new camellia species. The Verschaffelts were a family of Belgian nurserymen specializing in camellias. They published the Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias (1848-1860). It continues Lorenzo Berlèse’s work Iconographie du genre Camellia.

[edit] See also

• List of European camellia books

[edit] External links and sources

• L'Illustration horticole (several volumes full text at google book search)
• camellia Madame Ambroise Verschaffelt
• The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey - Gardening - 1917 (at Google Books)
• The Culture of Camellias annotated bibliography