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' |
| Origin | Germany |
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
- 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
- Foster, F. P., An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionary, New York, 1890; p.1425
- 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
- Loudon, J. C., The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Vol. 12, London 1836, p.635
- Loudon, J. C., Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, Vol.3 (London, 1838), p.1405
- Loudon, J. C., Hortus lignosus londinensis (London 1838), p.92-4
- Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus". Arnoldia. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. 24 (6–8): 41–80. Retrieved 16 February 2017.