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The 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. 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 [1]. A specimen at the Ryston Hall, Norfolk, arboretum, obtained from the Späth nursery in Berlin[2], was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s. Considered "probably a form of Ulmus × hollandica" by Green [3], possibly only one specimen now survives, in Brighton, England.
[edit] Synonymy
- Ulmus glabra var. scampstoniensis: Kirchner[3], in Petzold[4] & Kirchner, Arb. Muscav. 560, 1864.
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[edit] References
- ^ Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929. Private publication, Edinburgh. [1]
- ^ Ryston Hall Arboretum catalogue, circa 1920
- ^ Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [2]
- ^ Johnson, Owen (ed.) (2003). Champion Trees of Britain & Ireland. Whittet Press, ISBN 9781873580615.
