The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Ramulosa' [: 'twiggy'], Floetbeck elm,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.41Foster, F. P., An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionary, New York, 1890; p.1425 was raised in the Floetbeck (or Flottbeck) nurseries, Hamburg, by James Booth & Son (a principal supplier of continental elms to the UK, considered by Loudon the finest nursery in GermanyLoudon, J. C., The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Vol. 12, London 1836, p.635), and was first mentioned by Loudon in Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838) as Ulmus montana glabra var. ramulosa Booth, but without description.Loudon, J. C., Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, Vol.3 (London, 1838), p.1405 It does not, however, appear in Booth's 1838 list.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 listed the tree in a group including Downton Elm, Scampston Elm, and Ludlow Elm,Loudon, J. C., Hortus lignosus londinensis (London 1838), p.92-4 so Green's wych cultivar attribution (Ulmus glabra Huds.) appears to be an error.
Description Not available.
Cultivation No specimens are known to survive. Loudon mentions that there were specimens present in the original Horticultural Society Garden, London.
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