The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Pendula Variegata' was first described in 1850, and later by J. F. Wood in The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist (1851) as U. montana pendula variegata, the  'broad-leaved variegated weeping mountain elm', and was said by him to have originated in and been distributed by the Pontey nursery of Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Pendula Variegata' was first introduced in 1850, and later described by J. F. Wood in The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist (1851) as U. montana pendula variegata, the 'broad-leaved variegated weeping mountain elm', which he attributed to its origins from and distribution by the Pontey nursery of Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.