VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 419.

VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 419.

419.

p. 215

Every shoot and every fruit is produced above the insertion [in the axil] of its leaf which serves it as a mother, giving it water from the rain and moisture from the dew which falls at night from above, and often it protects them against the too great heat of the rays of the sun.

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