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Volume  Volume1\Botany for Painters & Elements of Landscape Painting

Entry#  408. The forms of trees (408--411).

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The elm always gives a greater length to the last branches of the

year's growth than to the lower ones; and Nature does this because

the highest branches are those which have to add to the size of the

tree; and those at the bottom must get dry because they grow in the

shade and their growth would be an impediment to the entrance of the

solar rays and the air among the main branches of the tree.

The main branches of the lower part bend down more than those above,

so as to be more oblique than those upper ones, and also because

they are larger and older.

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