Ulmus 'Ramulosa'

Ulmus 'Ramulosa'
Cultivar'Ramulosa'
OriginGermany

The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Ramulosa' [: 'twiggy'], Floetbeck elm,[1][2] was raised in the Floetbeck (or Flottbeck) nurseries, Hamburg, by James Booth & Son[3] (a principal supplier of continental elms to the UK, considered by Loudon the finest nursery in Germany[4]), and was first mentioned by Loudon in Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838) as Ulmus montana glabra var. ramulosa Booth, but without description.[5] It does not, however, appear in Booth's 1838 list.[3] Loudon listed the tree in a group including Downton Elm, Scampston Elm, and Ludlow Elm,[6] so Green's wych cultivar attribution (Ulmus glabra Huds.) appears to be an error.[7]

Description

Not available.

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive. Loudon mentions that there were specimens present in the original Horticultural Society Garden, London.

References

  1. ^ Miller, William, A dictionary of English names of plants applied in England and among English-speaking people to cultivated and wild plants, trees, and shrubs (London, 1884), p.41
  2. ^ Foster, F. P., An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionary, New York, 1890; p.1425
  3. ^ a b Loudon, J. C., Hortus lignosus londinensis: or, A catalogue of all the ligneous plants, indigenous and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, cultivated in the gardens and grounds ... in the principal nurseries of London and Edinburgh, and at Bollwyller in France, and in Hamburg (London, 1838), p.170
  4. ^ Loudon, J. C., The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Vol. 12, London 1836, p.635
  5. ^ Loudon, J. C., Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, Vol.3 (London, 1838), p.1405
  6. ^ Loudon, J. C., Hortus lignosus londinensis (London 1838), p.92-4
  7. ^ Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus". Arnoldia. 24 (6–8). Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University: 41–80. Retrieved 16 February 2017.