Ulmus 'Scampstoniensis'

Infobox Cultivar | name = "Ulmus"
cultivar = 'Scampstoniensis'
origin = EnglandThe cultivar 'Scampstoniensis', the Scampston Elm, originated at Scampston Hall, Yorkshire, England, before 1810. Described as "a weeping form of "U. nitens" (:"U. minor")" by Henry from a specimen grown in Victoria Park, Bath.

Description

Loudon opined that a tree of the same name in Chiswick "differed little from the species". Elwes saw the decayed stump of the original tree at Scampston, by which time the tree was no longer known to be in cultivation in nurseries in England Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). "The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland". Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929. Private publication, Edinburgh. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK488xE4/7tgbi/] ] .

Pests and diseases

A specimen at the Ryston Hall, Norfolk, arboretum, obtained from the Späth nursery in Berlin Ryston Hall Arboretum catalogue, circa 1920] , was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s.

Cultivation

Considered "probably a form of "Ulmus × hollandica" by Green Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. "Arnoldia", Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1605.pdf] ] , possibly only one specimen now survives, in Brighton, England.

ynonymy

*"Ulmus glabra" var. "scampstoniensis": Kirchner [http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=102729] , in Petzold [http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=102728] & Kirchner, "Arb. Muscav." 560, 1864.

Accessions

Europe

*Brighton & Hove City Council, UK, NCCPG Elm Collection, one tree in Woodvale Crematorium Johnson, Owen (ed.) (2003). "Champion Trees of Britain & Ireland". Whittet Press, ISBN 9781873580615.]

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