Ulmus glabra 'Pendula Variegata'

The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Pendula Variegata' was first described in 1850,^[1] 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, Yorkshire.^[2] It was listed by Hartwig & Rümpler in Illustrirtes Gehölzbuch (1875) as Ulmus montana (:glabra) var. pendula variegata Hort.^[3]

Ulmus glabra 'Pendula Variegata'
Species	Ulmus glabra
Cultivar	'Pendula Variegata'
Origin	England

Description

The tree has been described as a form of 'Pendula' (: 'Horizontalis') with beautiful white-variegated leaves.^[4] 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.^[2]

Pests and diseases

Not known.

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive. The tree was cultivated at the Royal Victoria Park, Bath, from the 1850s, where was described as "the variegated-leaved Weeping Scotch Elm" and a form of 'Horizontalis' ^[5] (though it was absent from Milburn's 1905 Victoria Park elm list ^[6]), and at Kew Gardens, from c. 1896 until at least 1925.