Ambroise Verschaffelt

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Ambroise Alexandre Verschaffelt Colette ( born December 11, 1825 Ghent, † May 16, 1886 ) was a Belgian gardener. The horticultural main field of his family were the camellias. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " procure for. ".

Life

Ambroise Verschaffelt led from 1850 onwards, which was founded by his grandfather Pierre Antoine and his father Jacques Alexandre continuing large nursery in the Rue du Chaume in Ghent, which he sold in 1869 to Jean Linden, of Brussels. Verschaffelt founded in 1854 the influential Horticulture magazine L' Illustration Horticole in Ghent. He introduced many new camellia species and varieties in the bargain. The family was Verschaffelt 1848-1860 out the Nouvelle Iconographie of Camellias, which continued with its numerous illustrations Lorenzo Berlèses book you Iconographie genre Camellia.

Verschaffelt died in his house in the Chaussee de Courtrai No. 98 He suffered probably due to tongue cancer.

Honors

Verschaffelt was honored with the Order of Leopold, the ' Croix- Civique ' and the Order of St. Maurice and Lazare, the Legion of Honour, that coming from Schleswig -Holstein St. Anne Order of Russia, Medijie, an Order of Friedrich of Württemberg, of the Order of the Zähringerplatz lion, an Order of Adolph of Nassau, the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Duke of Nassau and Oldenburg. Hermann Wendland named in his honor the palm genus Verschaffeltia. He was honored with the naming of plant species and varieties, including the widespread of swash plate ' Ambroise Verschaffelt ' and - the custom of the time following - with the named honor of his wife Camellia ' Madame Ambroise Verschaffelt '.

Swell

• Lucien Linden, Émile Rodigas: Nécrologie. In: L' Illustration horticole. Journal of spéciual serres et des jardins / 4 Série, Volume 33 (1886 ), pp. 76, (online).
• Thomas Meehan (ed.): The Gardener 's Monthly And Horticulturist. Volume 28 (1886 ), No. 331, pp. 219-220, (online).