From Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. 14, 1893, p. 312:

In Mr. Charles F. Verdier, whose death on the 18th of August is announced, the Rose world and French horticulture lose a distinguished and ardent Rose-grower. Associated in early years with his father, Mr. Victor Verdier, in the old garden just opposite the scene of Rosa Bonheur's picture of "The Horse Fair," in Paris, he has died ripe in years and honours. Having known him for forty years, I can but speak with respect of his perfect knowledge of Roses, his care and honesty in the discrimination of novelties, and his worth as a friend and colleague. He had seen the growth and consummation of the race of hybrid perpetuals and of the Teas, and had a fifty-years' Rose experience. His health had somewhat failed in the last three years; but when last I saw him he had planted in his new garden one of the most perfect collections of all the Roses, arranged in their several sections, and was, though not so vigorous as a cultivator, as ardent as ever in his enthusiasm and knowledge of his favourite flower. George Paul.