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Wych Elm ''Ulmus glabra'', the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Ural Mountains, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese and Sicily, where the species reac ...

cultivar A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ...

''Ulmus glabra'' 'Pendula Variegata' was first described in 1850, and later by J. F. Wood in ''The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist'' (1851) as ''U. montana pendula variegata'', the 'broad-leaved variegated weeping mountain elm', and was said by him to have originated in and been distributed by the Pontey nursery of Kirkheaton,

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...

, Yorkshire. It was listed by Hartwig & Rümpler in ''Illustrirtes Gehölzbuch'' (1875) as ''Ulmus montana (:glabra)'' var. ''pendula variegata'' Hort.''Illustrirtes Gehölzbuch'' 583, 1875
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Description

The tree has been described as a form of 'Pendula' (: 'Horizontalis') with beautiful white-variegated leaves. Pontey (1850) described 'Pendula Variegata' as "distinctly striped and margined with silver" and "remarkable for its constancy in variegation", Wood (1851) as "a first rate ornamental tree" with "beautifully striped foliage" and pendulous branches.

Pests and diseases

Not known.

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive. The tree was cultivated at the

Royal Victoria Park, Bath Royal Victoria Park is a public park in Bath, England. It was opened in 1830 by the 11-year-old Princess Victoria, seven years before her ascension to the throne, and was the first park to carry her name. It was privately run as part of the ...

, from the 1850s, where was described as "the variegated-leaved Weeping Scotch Elm" and a form of 'Horizontalis' Hanham, F. (1857)
''A Manual for the Park''
(Royal Victoria Park, Bath). Longman, London. (though it was absent from Milburn's 1905 Victoria Park elm list ), and at

Kew Gardens Kew Gardens is a botanical garden, botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botany, botanical and mycology, mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1759, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its li ...

, from c. 1896 until at least 1925.

References

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