sentences:  The Hesse Nursery of Weener, Germany, however, which marketed 'Atropurpurea' in the 1950s, listed it in later years as a form of "U. glabra" Huds..
  
  Photographs of the 'Atropurpurea' hedge at Wakehurst Place, England, though they show untypical 'pollard' leaves, appear to confirm that Späth's cultivar was similar to "Ulmus purpurea" Hort., probably the hybrid 'Purpurea' already in cultivation and in Späth's catalogues as "U. campestris purpurea", which he distributed separately.Späth described his 'Atropurpurea' as having dark purple emerging shoots and leaves ("the darkest and most beautiful of the purple elms"), the foliage later turning deep green.Henry noted that the leaves were folded.