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''Ulmus × hollandica'' 'Fastigiata' was first listed and described as ''Ulmus glabra fastigiata'', a narrow-crowned elm with large smooth leaves, by Petzold and Kirchner in ''Arboretum Muscaviense'' (1864).Petzold and Kirchner in ''Arboretum Muscaviense'' (Gotha, 1864), p.560
/ref> C. Berndt of the Berndt Nursery, Zirlau, Schweidnitz, described an elm of the same name in ''Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft'' (1915, including a photograph), that he had received in 1903 "from a renowned nursery in Holstein" as ''Ulmus montana fastigiata macrophylla''. A tree of that name had been listed by Dieck in 1885 without description. Berndt reported that his ''U. glabra fastigiata'' was "easy to confuse with ''U. montana superba''", a tree "known in the Magdeburg region as ''Ulmus praestans''", a statement confirming that, like that cultivar, his tree was a form of ''U.'' × ''hollandica''. Karl Gustav Hartwig who received specimens of ''U. praestans'' from Kiessling of the Magdeburg city nursery in 1908, concluded (1912) that ''U. glabra fastigiata'' Kirchner was indistinguishable in leaf or habit from ''U. praestans''. An ''U. campestris glabra fastigiata'' ''Arb. Musc.'' = Kirchnerwas distributed by the Hesse Nursery,

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, Germany, in the 1930s, where it was listed separately from ''U. praestans''. The Späth nursery of Berlin marketed an ''U. montana fastigiata glabra'' in the 1890s and early 1900s. Bean (1925) listed an ''U. glabra'' 'Fastigiata Stricta' (1925). Not to be confused with Exeter Elm, Loudon's ''U. montana fastigiata'' (1838) and Elwes and

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's ''U. montana'' var. ''fastigiata'' (1913).Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII.

Description

Kirchner's ''Ulmus glabra fastigiata'' was narrow-crowned, with large smoothish leaves of firmer texture than his ''Ulmus glabra'' Mill.. Berndt's ''Ulmus glabra fastigiata'' was a tree of tight narrow pyramidal growth, the leaf being dark, acuminate, irregularly veined, and often wider at the top than lower down. Berndt reported the tree as "less vigorous than ''Ulmus montana superba''" = ''U. praestans''

Cultivation

''Ulmus glabra fastigiata'' was cultivated in

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by the Berndt Nursery, Zirlau, Schweidnitz, in the early 20th century. Berndt reported that, though stocked in only a few nurseries, it was praised at the 20th Century Exhibition in Breslau. No specimens are known to survive.

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