Branch Quotes

The beginning of the branch will always have the central line of its thickness taking its direction by the central line of the plant.

The thickness of a branch is never diminished in the space there is between one leaf and another except by as much as the thickness of the eye that is above the leaf, and this thickness is lacking in the branch up to the next leaf.

This ramification of the elm has the largest branch in front, and its smallest are the first and the penultimate when the chief branch is straight.