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399.

The plant which gives out the smallest ramifications will preserve the straightest line in the course of its growth.

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Footnotes

206:203 : This passage is illustrated by two partly effaced sketches. One of these closely resembles the lower one given under No. 408, the other also represents short closely set boughs on an upright trunk.


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