Ulmus 'Ramulosa'

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]

Ulmus 'Ramulosa'
Cultivar'Ramulosa'
OriginGermany

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. 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. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. 24 (6–8): 41–80. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
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