The
Wych Elm cultivar ''Ulmus glabra'' 'Albo-Variegata' was first mentioned by
Weston''The Universal Botanist and Nurseryman''. 1 : 315 in 1770 as ''U. glabra'' var. ''variegata''.
An ''U. campestris latifolia albo-variegata''
Hort. was distributed by the
Späth nursery The Späth (often spelt ''Spaeth'') family created one of the world's most notable plant nurseries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nursery had been founded in 1720 by Christoph Späth but removed to the erstwhile district of Baumschulen ...
, Berlin, from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Description
Weston described the tree as having leaves striped with white. Späth's cultivar was described in his 1903 and 1930 catalogues as having "large white-marbled leaves".
Pests and diseases
See under ''
Ulmus glabra''.
Cultivation
An elm with white-variegated wych-type leaves is sold in Poland. Three specimens of ''U. campestris latifolia albo-variegata'' were supplied by Späth to the
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1902, and may survive in Edinburgh as it was the practice of the Garden to distribute trees about the city (viz. the
Wentworth Elm).
Synonymy
*? ''Ulmus montana (: glabra)'' var. ''variegata'':
Loudon''Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum'', 3: 1405, 1838
*? ''Ulmus montana albo-marginata'': Cheal's nursery of
Crawley
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[J. Cheal & Sons, Crawley, Sussex; pre-1914 catalogue]
References
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