Through the still popular Coleus Verschaffeltii, as well as by many other plants named in his honor, Mr. Verschaffelt was well-known to American flower lovers, who will be sorry to read the following which we find in the London Journal of Horticulture :

" Many of our readers will regret to hear of the death of M. Ambroise Colette Alexandre Verschaffelt, better known perhaps by his familiar name of M. Ambroise Verschaffelt of Ghent, which occurred on the 16th inst, at his residence, 98 Chaus-see de Courtrai. M. A. Verschaffelt was one of the most prominent of the great Belgian nurserymen, and his name was as 'a household word' throughout the world of horticulture. The founder of the vast establishment now directed by M. L. Linden in the Rue de Chaume, he there carried on an extensive trade for many years, till he relinquished it in favor of M. J. Linden, who was at that time in business at Brussels. Since then M. Verschaffelt has lived in retirement, though not in idleness, for he still retained his love for horticulture, and occupied his leisure in cultivating those plants which commended themselves most to his horticultural tastes. For a considerable time M. Verschaffelt has suffered from a painful malady - we believe cancer of the tongue - to which he succumbed.

He was the founder of ' L'lllustration Horticole,' and besides holding many honorary offices in Belgium he was officer of the Order of Leopold, was decorated with the 'Croix-Civique' and the following orders - St. Maurice and Lazare, the Legion of Honor, St. Anne of Russia, the Medijie, Frederic of Wurtemburg, the Lion of Zoehringen, Adolphe of Nassau, Grand Duke of Hesse, and the Dukes of Nassau and Oldenberg. M. Verschaffelt was born at Ghent, on the nth of December, 1825, and was consequently in the sixty-first year of his age".