Ulmus minor 'Atinia Variegata'

Weston described the tree as having leaves striped, spotted and margined with white.^[4][8][9] The photograph in Krüssman (1984) of a specimen in Schönaich-Carolath Park, Hamburg, shows the typical, almost orbicular leaves of English elm, but variegated.^[10] In other respects the form of the tree is similar to the type.^[11] The tree, which was the only variegated English elm in cultivation, sometimes produces variegated suckers.^[2][5] The naturalist Eliza Brightwen in Quiet Hours with Nature (1904) described a specimen she had in The Grove, her estate in Stanmore, Middlesex:

I happen to possess a well-grown young elm which bears cream-coloured streaked and spotted leaves; this is merely a sport of the common U. campestris, but seen amongst the dark green foliage of other trees, it is highly ornamental.^[12]

Brightwen carefully distinguishes, among field elms, between U. campestris (English elm), U. glabra Mill. (smooth-leaved elm), U. carpinifolia (narrow-leaved elm), and U. minor (small-leaved elm), so her Stanmore specimen is likely to have been, as she states, the variegated English elm cultivar, not Silver Elm.

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  Variegated English Elm sucker leaves, Leek Wootton, Warwickshire (July 2018)
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'Atinia Variegata' is vulnerable to Dutch elm disease.

Variegated English elm was in commerce from the 18th century.^[2] In the Royal Victoria Park, Bath, it was listed in the mid-19th century as U. campestris foliis variegatis, "the variegated-leaved common English elm".^[1] The Späth nursery of Berlin supplied an U. campestris fol. argenteis marginatis to the Dominion Arboretum, Ottawa, Canada in 1897, which may have been variegated English elm, as well as an U. campestris variegata argentea (1893) and an U. campestris fol. argenteis variegatis (1899), possibly silver elm or tartan elm.^[13] Hillier & Sons Nursery of Winchester, Hampshire, marketed the tree in the mid-20th century as U. procera 'Argenteo-variegata'.^[14] U. procera 'Argenteo-variegata' or U. procera 'Variegata' was also cultivated in Sweden, where specimens may survive.^[15]

The variegated cultivar now sold as U. procera 'Argenteo-Variegata' in the UK,^[16] US and Australasia, though labelled variegated 'English' elm, is always Silver Elm, U. minor 'Argenteo-Variegata'. Variegated English Elm (U. procera) is no longer in nurseries.

A notable specimen of variegated English Elm in Leek Wootton, Warwickshire,^[17] was the subject of an article in The Gardeners' Chronicle in 1878.^[18] It was probably the "fine specimen" of variegated English Elm "on the main road between Warwick and Coventry, whose suckers were as variegated as the parent", that Bean noted in the 1930s.^[19] The tree was still standing in the 1960s,^[20] and survives (2017) as sucker regrowth (see gallery). Gerald Wilkinson reported that "great specimens" of variegated English Elm could still be seen in the early 1970s at Kew, at Kenwood (near the West Gate), and in many large gardens.^[11] The Kenwood specimen seen by Wilkinson may have been the same tree noted there by Augustine Henry, measuring 75 feet in 1909.^[5]

• ? U. campestris fol. maculatis: Loddiges, (Hackney, London), Catalogue 1823, p. 35.
• U. campestris foliis variegatis ^[1]

North America

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden Archived 2016-02-01 at the Wayback Machine, New York, US. Acc. no. 910507.

Europe

• Grange Farm Arboretum, Sutton St James, Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. As U. minor 'Argenteovariegata'. Whips planted 2011. Acc. no. 1077.
• Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire, UK. One tree, no details available.

North America

• Foothills Nursery , Mt. Airy, North Carolina, US.
• ForestFarm , Williams, Oregon, US.

Europe

• Dulford Nurseries , Cullompton, Devon, UK.
• Goscote Nurseries Ltd. , Cossington, Leics., UK.
• Madrona Nursery , Bethersden, Kent, UK.

Australasia

• Established Tree Planters Pty. Ltd., Wandin, Victoria, Australia.