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contains some valuable information as to botanical science in the
ancient classical writers and at the time of the Renaissance.]
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05.
The lowest branches of those trees which have large leaves and heavy
fruits, such as nut-trees, fig-trees and the like, always droop
towards the ground.
The branches always originate above [in the axis of] the leaves.
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06.
The upper shoots of the lateral branches of plants lie closer to the
parent branch than the lower ones.
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07.
The lowest branches, after they have formed the angle of their
separation from the parent stem, always bend downwards so as not to
crowd against the other branches which follow them on the same stem
and to be better able to take the air which nourishes them. As is
shown by the angle b a c; the branch a c after it has made the
corner of the angle a c bends downwards to c d and the lesser
shoot c dries up, being too thin.
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