Ambroise Verschaffelt was a distinguished Belgian horticulturist and author. He founded the L'Illustration Horticole at Ghent in 1854 and introduced many new camellia

Camellia

Camellia, the camellias, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalaya east to Korea and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number...

 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

Lorenzo Berlèse

The Abbe Berlèse was the greatest camellia scholar of the nineteenth century. He was born and died in Campolino, Italy. He was ordained priest in the Seminario Vescovile di Ceneda. He lived and worked for circa 40 years in Paris, where he had his own greenhouses...

’s work Iconographie du genre Camellia.

External links and sources

(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