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Cultivar | 'Scampstoniensis' |
Origin | England |
The cultivar 'Scampstoniensis', the Scampston Elm, originated at Scampston Hall, Yorkshire, England, before 1810. Henry described the tree as "a weeping form of U. nitens (:Ulmus minor)" from a specimen grown in Victoria Park, Bath, however Green considered it "probably a form of Ulmus × hollandica" [1],
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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 [2].
A specimen at the Ryston Hall, Norfolk, arboretum, obtained from the Späth nursery in Berlin[3], was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s.
Possibly only one specimen now survives, in Brighton, England.