Registration of Cultivar Names in Ulmus - Arnoldia - Harvard ...

a tree with ascending branches but pendulous branchlets, slightly pubescent
while young; leaves obovate to narrow-elliptic, 2-6 cm. long, acuminate, incised
doubly serrate, scabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath. Said to have been
raised by Mr. Masters in 1817. Usually treated as a variety of U. procera but
according to Dr. Melville this is of hybrid origin: U. carpinifolia X plotii, and
is the correct epithet for this hybrid, as U. X viminalis. However the original
clone may still be known as Ulmus ’Viminalis’.
’Viminalis Argentea’ (Hillier, Winchester, England, Cat. 2P, p.
100. 1938, as
U. viminalis argentea). Described as having leaves variegated with silver.
U. X viminalis (that is U. var. procera viminalis sensu Rehder).
’Viminalis Aurea’ (Henry in Elwes & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. Irel. 7: 1907. 1913,
as U. campestris var. viminalis aurea ) = U. X viminalis ‘AUREA’.
’Viminalis Gracilis’ (Dieck, Zoschen, Germany, Haupt-Cat. 1885, p. 82, as U.
scabra viminalis gracilis Hort., without description) = ’VIMINALIS’.
’VIMINALIS MARGINATA’ ( Kirchner in Petzold & Kirchner, Arb. Muscav. 556. 1864,
as U. campestris var. viminalis marginata Hort.). Said to be a form of ‘Viminalis’
with the leaves variegated with creamy white near the margin.
’Viminalis Marmorata’ ( Schelle in Beissner et al., Handb. Laubh.-Benenn. 85.
1903, as U. montana viminalis marmorata Hort., without description) = ’PUL-
VERULENTA’.
’Viminalis Pendula’ (Masters in Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. 13: 90. 1891,
pendula, without description) = ’VIMINALIS’.
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as U. viminalis
’Viminalis Pulverulenta’ (Hartwig, Ill. Geholzb. ed. 2. 394. 1892, as L’. scabra
var. viminalis pulverulenta Hort. ) . Described as the pulverulent ‘Viminalis’. _
’PULVERULENTA’.
’VIMINALIS STRICTA’ (Boulger in Gard. Chron. II. 12: 298. 1879, as U. campestris
viminalis stricta Loudon, without description).
’Viminalis Superba’ ( Schelle in Beissner et al., Handb. Laubh.-Benenn. 85. 1903,
as U. campestris viminalis superba Hort., name in synonymy, without descrip-
= tion) ’VIMINALIS MARGINATA’.
’Viminalis Variegata’ (Lee ex Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. 18: 90. 1895,
variegata, without description) = ’VIMINALIS MARGINATA’.
as U. viminalis
’VIRENS’ (Masters, Hort. Duroverni 66. 1831, as U. virens, without description;
Loudon, Arb. Frut. Brit. 3: 1376. 1838, as U. campestris var. virens). The
Kidbrook Elm. Described as being almost evergreen in a mild winter; the bark
is red and the tree of a spreading habit. U. X hollandica.
‘VIRGATA’ (Pepin in Revue Hort. 1865: 347. 1865, as U. campestris virgata and
U. virgata). Described as having slender, erect branches giving the tree a
fastigiate shape. Planted before 1789 near Nangis, Seine-et-Mame. U. carpinifolia.