Ulmus × hollandica 'Dumont'

Elm cultivar
Ulmus × hollandica 'Dumont'
Hybrid parentageU. glabra × U. minor
Cultivar'Dumont'
OriginBelgium

The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Dumont' was a very vigorous elm raised from a tree discovered by a gardener on the estate of M. Dumont at Tournay, Belgium, c. 1865.[1]

Description

The tree had a straight trunk and a narrow regular, pyramidal crown, Elwes likening it to Wheatley Elm in habit.[2] The leaves were somewhat smaller than those of 'Belgica'.[3][4]

Pests and diseases

'Dumont' was very susceptible to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

Unidentified clipped elms, Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles, early 20th century

No specimens are known to survive. The tree was once a popular choice for street planting in Belgium and France, notably at Ypres, where Henry collected a specimen for Kew Gardens in 1912,[5] and at Versailles (town, not palace), where it was supplied by Moser's nursery and planted in "peculiar clipped avenues".[2] Early 20th-century photographs of the Place Barascude and Avenue Thiers, Versailles, show Wheatley-like elms, some clipped, and pruned avenues by Moser's nursery.[6][7] An U. campestris Dumont, "a vigorous grower" with "large leaves", appeared in the 1909 catalogue of the Bobbink and Atkins nursery, Rutherford, New Jersey.[8] The Hesse Nursery of Weener, Germany, marketed an Ulmus latifolia Dumont in the 1930s.[9]

Synonymy

  • Ulmus campestris var. Dumontii: Mottet [1] in Nicholson [2] & Mottet's Dictionnaire pratique d'horticulture et de jardinage 5: 383, 1898,[10] and by Krüssmann [3] in Handb, Laubgeh. 2: 537, 1962.
  • Ulmus 'De Dumont': Plant Buyer's Guide, ed. 6. 286, 1958.

References

  1. ^ Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus". Arnoldia. 24 (6–8). Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University: 41–80. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b Elwes, Henry John; Henry, Augustine (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 7. pp. 1871–1872.
  3. ^ "Famille XV – Ulmacées". Annales des travaux publics de Belgique. 62: 1226. 1905.
  4. ^ "Ulmus belgica v. Dumontii". Herbarium catalogue. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 October 2016. Ypres specimen (Augustine Henry, 1912); "Herbarium specimen - L.1587068". Botany catalogues. Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Long shoot, possibly juvenile; U. hollandica Mill. 'Dumonti'; Poort Bulten Arboretum specimen, Den Haag (1931); "Herbarium specimen - WAG.1847159". Botany catalogues. Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Long shoot, possibly juvenile; U. hollandica Mill. 'Dumontii' Rehd.; Den Haag specimen (1932)
  5. ^ Ulmus belgica Burgsd. ex Rehder var. dumontii A.Henry, apps.kew.org, specimen K000852722
  6. ^ Place Barascud (Barascude), Versailles, and Pépinière du Moser, 'Les quartiers de Versailles', cartophilie-viroflay.org
  7. ^ Tramway de Saint Cyr au square Barascude, cparama.com
  8. ^ Bobbink and Atkins, Rutherford. N.J. 1909. p. 51.
  9. ^ Hesse, Hermann Albert (1932). Preis- und Sortenliste. pp. 96–97. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  10. ^ Mottet, Séraphin Joseph Mottet; Nicholson, George (1898). Dictionnaire pratique d'horticulture et de jardinage. p. 383.
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