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The cultivation of elms in Australia began in the first half of the 19th century, when British settlers imported species and cultivars from their former homelands. Owing to the demise of elms in the northern hemisphere as a result of the Dutch elm disease pandemic, the mature trees in Australia 's parks and gardens are now regarded as amongst ...
Elms supplied as 'Cornubiensis', St. Stephen's Church, Mittagong, NSW [7] A cultivar supplied as 'Cornubiensis' remains in cultivation in Australia, but Spencer, describing it in Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia (1995), noted that it was not type-'Stricta'. He gave as an example the elms beside St. Stephen's Church, Mittagong, NSW ...
This seedling variation," wrote Roger Spencer (Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia, 1995), "suggests one possible source of the variation to be found in these trees [so-called 'English elm' [53] [56] [55]] in Australia." [87] The extent to which elms in Australia have been propagated by seed rather than by cloning is unclear, but ...
The starting-points for List of elm cultivars, hybrids and hybrid cultivars were fourfold: (1) Green's 'Registration of Cultivar Names in Ulmus ' (1964), [1] based on the contemporary nomenclature of elm species and wild hybrids; (2) Krüssmann's confirmation or correction of cultivar-names in his monumental Handbuch der Laubgehölze (1976); [2] (3) Heybroek's table of Netherlands research ...
In Australia, several trees planted in 1897 stand in Geelong Botanic Gardens, Victoria. [17] 'Atinia Variegata' is also found among the elms lining the Avenue of Honour at Ballarat, while approximately 50 trees grow at The Nook, Sunbury. [citation needed] There are two mature trees in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart. [18]
The Benalla Botanic Gardens, is a heritage listed botanic garden located in Benalla, Victoria, Australia. The gardens, originally designed by Alfred Sangwell in 1886, was listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1995. The gardens include a rose garden established in 1959, which is the focus of the annual Benalla Rose Festival.
English elms were favoured/ planted between c. 1880 and c. 1920 – corresponding with the date of Bentinck Street's elms. Elms are a defining tree of the c. – c. 1900 ('Federation') era in Bathurst and a number of inland Australian and NSW country towns of this period (e.g.: Ballarat, Bendigo, Albury, Orange, Wagga Wagga).
In Australia it was said to be more vigorous than Huntingdon Elm ("the fastest grower of the elms in Sydney except the 'Canadian Giant'"). [3] The Gembrook or Nobelius Nursery 1918 catalogue described 'Canadian Elm' as "a good street tree of rapid growth", listing it separately from Chichester Elm and Huntingdon Elm.