In 1915 the horticulturalist E. A. Bowles described "a tall Silver Elm" at Myddleton House, his lifelong home at Bulls Cross in Enfield, Middlesex:
It was in 1915 that E. A. Bowles, a horticulturist, noted "a tall Silver Elm" at Myddleton House, which served as his home throughout his life at Bulls Cross in Enfield, Middlesex: