A quite well known french nursery (Val du Jargeau) is selling a CV "acer palmatum horizontalis". Have you ever heard about this cv ? By the way is it a cv or a commercial name for an "improvement" of the type ? I have never read anything about this cv. According to that nursery this cv is developping nice "horizontal" branches.
Never heard of it before, but Maillot has it on its list, as well as a Belgian nursery : http://www.cece-choteau.be/fr/detail_prd.php?id_prd=182&id_prd=182&KT_back=1