 Two specimens planted at Kew Gardens in the Pagoda Vista succumbed very rapidly to the earlier strain of DED in 1931.Before Dutch elm disease the tree was commonly cultivated in northern Europe.The Späth nursery of Berlin marketed it in the late 19th century as "U. campestris Louis van Houtte", under which name it was introduced to the Dominion Arboretum, Ottawa, Canada, in 1898, and to the Ryston Hall arboretum, Norfolk, UK, (planted 1913).