Ulmus × hollandica 'Major' is a distinctive cultivar that in England came to be known specifically as the Dutch Elm, although all naturally occurring Field Elm Ulmus minor × Wych Elm U. glabra hybrids
'Major', Fettes Row, Edinburgh
Corky wings on epicormic branchlets
'Major' bark and corky bole-shoots
'Major' leaves showing tapering apices
The field elm cultivar 'Atinia', commonly known as the English elm, formerly common elm and horse may, and more lately the Atinian elm, was, before the spread of Dutch elm disease, the most common fie
Ulmus × hollandica 'Major'
…the cultivar U. × hollandica 'Major' in 1962. Richens (1983) states that Elwes and Henry in their account of Dutch Elm (1913) "confused Dutch Elm with English". He gives no evidence but can only have been referring to Henry's statement that "in many districts ['Major'] is the commonest tree in hedgerows…
English Elm, Brighton, 1992
English Elm at Powderham, before 1913