 Introduced to Australia, the tree was marketed in the early 20th century by the Gembrook Nursery near Melbourne, and by Searl's Garden Emporium, Sydney, but it is not known whether the tree survives in that country.Despite its susceptibility to Dutch elm disease, it remains in commercial cultivation in Belgium and the Netherlands.A field elm cultivar in the People's Park, Budapest, in the early 20th century, presumably grafted at ground level and trained to a neat cone, illustrated in Möller's "Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung" (1918) as "Ulmus campestris als Pyramidenbaum" [