 It is possible that the tree owes its Cambridge introduction to John Lindley, whose 1823 revision of Donn's (d. 1813) "Hortus Cantabrigiensis" contains the first reference, bestowed by him, to the Chichester Elm as "U. vegeta".The claimed North American source of the tree in later 19th-century catalogues almost certainly arose from Loudon's lumping together of Chichester Elm and Huntingdon Elm, for which he noted the synonym 'American Elm' adopted by some nurserymen (owing to the similarity in shape) and the Scampston Elm, with its supposed American provenance.There is no record of the tree's introduction to North America, but both an "U. montana vegeta" and an "U. montana Huntingdoni" were planted at the Dominion Arboretum, Ottawa, Canada, in 1893, as distinct clones; it is possible that the first was Chichester Elm.