''Ulmus'' × ''hollandica'' 'Dumont'

Ulmus × hollandica 'Dumont'
Hybrid parentage U. glabra × U. minor
Cultivar 'Dumont'
Origin Belgium

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; the leaves being somewhat smaller than 'Belgica'.[2]

Pests and diseases

'Dumont' was very susceptible to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive. The tree was once a popular choice for street planting in Belgium and France, notably at Versailles (town, not palace).[3] An U. campestris Dumont, "a vigorous grower" with "large leaves", appeared in the 1909 catalogue of the Bobbink and Atkins nursery, Rutherford, New Jersey.[4] The Hesse Nursery of Weener, Germany, marketed an Ulmus latifolia Dumont in the 1930s.[5]

Synonymy

  • Ulmus campestris var. Dumontii: Mottet in Nicholson & Mottet's Dictionnaire pratique d'horticulture et de jardinage 5: 383, 1898,[6] and by Krüssmann 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. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. 24 (6–8): 41–80. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Famille XV – Ulmacées". Annales des travaux publics de Belgique. 62: 1226. 1905.
  3. ↑ Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. 1848–1929. Republished 2014 Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781108069380
  4. ↑ Bobbink and Atkins, Rutherford. N.J. 1909. p. 51.
  5. ↑ Hesse, Hermann Albert (1932). Preis- und Sortenliste. pp. 96–97. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Mottet, Séraphin Joseph Mottet; Nicholson, George (1898). Dictionnaire pratique d'horticulture et de jardinage. p. 383.
  • "Ulmus belgica v. Dumontii". Herbarium catalogue. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  • "Herbarium specimen - L.1587068". Botany catalogues. Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Sheet described as U. hollandica Mill. 'Dumonti'; Poort Bulten Arboretum specimen, Den Haag (1931)
  • "Herbarium specimen - WAG.1847159". Botany catalogues. Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Long shoot; sheet described as U. hollandica Mill. 'Dumontii' Rehd.; Den Haag specimen (1932)
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