Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Interesting story about the Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii'



"About 1835 - 1840 (often miscalled as '1640'), the Earl of Camperdown’s head forester, David Taylor, discovered a mutant contorted branch growing along the ground in the forest at Camperdown House, in Dundee, Scotland. The earl's gardener produced the first Camperdown Elm by grafting it to the trunk of a Wych Elm Ulmus glabra. Every Camperdown Elm in the world is from a cutting taken from that original mutant cutting and is usually grafted on a Wych elm trunk." ~Wiki link


1 comment:

  1. This is a good place to sit and think of the things that you should be doing. But forget about that and think of the blessing that you have and can sit there and enjoy what you have.

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