The Wych Elm

Wych Elm

Ulmus glabra, the Wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Urals, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese in Greece; it is also found in Iran...

 Ulmus glabra cultivar 'Macrophylla' was first mentioned by Lavallée in Arb. Segrez. 237, 1877.

Description

The tree was later described as having the largest leaves, and being of very strong growth . Augustine Henry

Augustine Henry

Augustine Henry was an Irish plantsman and sinologist. He is best known for sending over 15,000 dry specimens and seeds and 500 plant samples to Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom. By 1930, he was a recognised authority and was honoured with society membership in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland,...

  thought the tree identical with those he saw at Looymans' nursery at Oudenbosch

Oudenbosch

Oudenbosch is a village in the municipality Halderberge in the west of the Dutch province Noord-Brabant. Oudenbosch is well-known for its 'Basiliek' a catholic church that is a smaller copy of St...

, which in turn he considered indistinguishable from the cultivar 'Pitteurs'

Ulmus 'Pitteurs'

Ulmus Pitteurs is probably one of a number of elm cultivars arising from the crossing of the Wych Elm Ulmus glabra with a variety of Field Elm Ulmus minor...

 growing in the town of St. Trond (Flemish: Sint-Truiden

Sint-Truiden

Sint-Truiden is a city and municipality located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium, near the towns of Hasselt and Tongeren. The municipality includes the old communes of Aalst, Brustem, Duras, Engelmanshoven, Gelinden, Gorsem, Groot-Gelmen, Halmaal, Kerkom-bij-Sint-Truiden,...

) in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 before the First World War.