Ulmus 'Escaillard' Explained

Ulmus 'Escaillard'
Genus:	Ulmus
Cultivar:	'Escaillard'
Origin:	France

The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Escaillard' was first described by Dumont de Courset in 1811, and listed, without description, as Ulmus escaillard, by the André Leroy nursery at Angers, France, in 1849.^[1] It was distributed by the Baudriller nursery of Angers^[2] and by Hesse's nursery, Weener, Germany,^{[3] [4]} as U. campestris 'Escaillardii', both nurseries using U. montana for wych elm cultivars. Herbarium specimens from a tree in The Hague obtained from the Hesse nursery label it variously U. glabra 'Escaillardii' and Ulmus × hollandica 'Escaillardi'. The latter was Christine Buisman's determination (1931), identifiable as hers by its handwriting and red label.^[5]

Description

'Escaillard' was a small-leaved elm.^{[6] [7]}

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive.

Synonymy

• Ulmus campestris var. escaillardii.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Green . Peter Shaw . Peter Shaw Green . 1964 . Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia . 24. 41–80 . 6–8 . . 16 February 2017. http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/16.
2. Book: Baudriller Établissement d'Horticulture . Catalogue général descriptif et raisonné des arbres fruitiers, forestiers & d'ornement cultivés dans l'établissement . 1880 . Angers . 116 .
3. Book: Hesse. Hermann Albert. Preis- und Sortenliste. 1932. 96–97. 18 January 2018.
4. Book: Hesse. Hermann Albert. Preis- und Sortenliste. 1933. 91–92. 27 February 2018.
5. Heybroek, H. M., Goudzwaard, L, Kaljee, H. (2009). Iep of olm, karakterboom van de Lage Landen (:Elm, a tree with character of the Low Countries). KNNV, Uitgeverij.
6. Book: Dumont de Courset . Georges Louis Marie . Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset . Le botaniste cultivateur, ou Description, culture et usages de la plus grande partie des plantes étrangères, naturalisées et indigènes, cultivées en France, en Autriche, en Italie et en Angleterre' . 1811 . Paris . 6 . 584 .
7. Sheet labelled Ulmus hollandica Escaillardi, Den Haag, 1931; Sheet labelled Ulmus glabra Escaillardii, Den Haag
8. Book: Lavallée, Alphonse. Pierre Alphonse Martin Lavallée. 1877. Arboretum Segrezianum. 235.