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He lifted her in his arms, placed her on his shoulder like a big blue forget-me-not gathered from the grass, then deposited her by Leam on the seat beneath the cut-leaved hornbeam.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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Leam, irresolute what to do, sat in the garden under the shadow of the cut-leaved hornbeam, from the branches of which Pepita used to swing in her hammock, smoking cigarettes and striking her zambomba.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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Cultivators have availed themselves of this tendency to produce multiform foliage, not only for the purposes of decoration or curiosity, as in the many cut-leaved or crisped-leaved varieties, but also for more material uses, as, for instance, the many varieties of cabbages, of lettuces, &c. Most of these variations are mentioned under the head of the particular morphological change of which they are illustrations.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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When Leam came back to the seat under the cut-leaved hornbeam, where Edgar still waited for her to have the pleasure of watching her approach, she was not so much ashamed and oppressed as when he had first found her there.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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He may still like the weeping and cut-leaved and party-colored trees of the horticulturist, but he sees that their best effects are to be had when they are planted sparingly, as borders or promontories of the structural masses.
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Wier's cut-leaved silver maple, _A. saccharinum_ var. _Wieri.
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Golden-leaved elder, _S. nigra_ var. _foliis aureis, _ (DD) and also the cut-leaved elder, are desirable forms of the European species; 5-15 ft. Buffalo-berry, _Shepherdia argentea_ (A) Silvery foliage; attractive and edible berries; 10-15 ft., often tree-like.
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_ The var. _imperialis_ (DD) is one of the best cut-leaved small trees.
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I remember one smoky moon, and there was a certain dawn in which I loved, more strangely than ever, the cut-leaved profile against the grey-red East.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905
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Similarly divided and cleft leaves seem to have occurred more often in the wild state, and cut-leaved hazels are recorded from Rouen in France, birches and alders from Sweden and Lapland, where both are said to have been met with in several forests.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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