> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 714](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212756) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11145-1) LSID 11145-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q458992) QID Q458992 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Verschaffelt, Ambroise Golette Alexandre (1825-1886), Belgian horticulturist at Gent \[Gand\]; from 1850 in charge of the horticultural firm founded by his grandfather Pierre Antoine and his father Alexandre Jacques Verschaffelt; sold his firm to Jean Linden 1869, remaining active as private and consulting horticulturist. **Abbreviated name**: *Verschaff.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Verschaff.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 12-13; Backer p. 613; Barnhart 3: 432 (b. 11 Dec 1825, d. 16 Mai 1886); BM 5: 2208; GR p. 85; Hortus 3: 1196, 1206; Jackson p. 126; MW p. 514; NI 2056; PR 9743; Rehder 5: 879; TL-2/4620a, 4626, see A.C. Lemaire, J.J. Linden; Tucker 1: 718, 719; Zander ed. 10, p. 672, 728, ed. 11, p. 766, 830. #### Biofile - Anon., Bibl. natl., Dict, écriv. belg. 4: 258. 1910. - De Bauw, R., Une famille d'horticulteurs gantois au XIXe siècle: les Verschaffelt. Kraainem 1967, privately publ., 22 p. mimeogr. (full genealogical information and details on horticultural activities of the family). - Fletcher, H.R., Story Roy. Hort. Soc. 182-183. 1969. - Graves, G., Amer. Camellia Yearb. 1978: 167-177. 1978 (orig. publ. in Nat. Hort. Mag. 25(2), 1946) (account of the *Iconogr. Camellias*). - O.K., Rev. hort. belge étrang. 12: 143-144. 1886 (obit.). - Pynaert, Ch., Biogr. natl. Belgique 26: 686-687. 1936-1938. #### Composite works Founder and publisher of *L'Illustration horticole*, vols. 1-16, 1854-1868/69 (editor C.A. Lemaire). #### Eponymy *Verschaffeltia* H. Wendland (1865). ### Publications ##### n.16.057. Nouvelle iconographie des Camellias **Title** *Nouvelle iconographie des Camellias* contenant les figures et la description des plus rares, des plus nouvelles et des plus belles variétés de ce genre... Gand \[Gent\] (chez l'éditeur Alexandre Verschaffelt \[from 1850-1852... Ambroise Verschaffelt;... 1853-1860 Ambroise Verschaffelt fils,...\]) 1848-1860. **Abbreviated title**: *Nouv. iconogr. Camellias*. **Notes** *Authorship*: Alexandre Verschaffelt was editor only of the first volume (combining 1848-1849 and of the first three parts of 1850); Ambroise Verschaffelt (who signed himself Ambroise Verschaffelt fils on the t.p.'s of the later volumes) was editor of the volumes 1850-1860. The actual question of the authorship is difficult to solve. It is quite well possible that parts of the texts were written by C.A. Lemaire who was an employee of the Verschaffelt firm, but so far there is no indication as to what extent. See e.g. Graves (1978) and E. Morren & A. De Vos, Index bibl. Hort. belg., who list Lemaire as actual author of most of the descriptions. *1848*: p. \[i\]-vi, 12 livraisons, each with *pl. 1-4* accompanied by text (plate 4 of livr. 10 was never issued), in all *47 plates* followed by an index \[1 p.\]. *1849*: bound with 1848 volume, no t.p., 12 livr. as above, in all *48 pl*., \[1 p. index\]. *1850*: \[1, t.p. and iii, index\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1851*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1852*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1853*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1854*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1855*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1856*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1857*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1858*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1859*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *1860*: p. \[i-iii\], *48 pl*. (id.). *Copies*: BR, HH, MO, NY. – In all 623 colored plates with letter press: title-page "Tome I. – 1848-1849" was issued for the combined volumes for 1848-1849. *English text*: 1945, Avery Island, Louisiana (E.A. Mc Ilhenny), p. \[i\*-ii\*\], i-ix, 1-318. *Copy*: HH. – *New Iconography of the Camellias*. Containing the figures and the descriptions of the rarest, the newest and the most beautiful varieties of this species 1848-1860 by Alexandre Verschaffelt \[sic\] translated from the French by E.A. Mc Ilhenny. *Precursor*: Laurent Berlèse, *Iconographie du genre Camellia*;... peints d'après nature... par J.J. Jung, 3 vols., 300 pl., Paris 1841-1843.