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plenty on the branch. I could not perceive 

 any alteration in the tafte of the -apples, tho* 

 they hung feveral weeks after; but the fmell 

 of the camphire was very ftrong in the ftalks 

 of the leaves, and in every part of the dead 

 branch. 



I made the fame experiment on a vine, 

 with ftrongly-fcented orange-flower- water; 

 the event was the fame, it did not penetrate 

 into the grapes, but very fenfibly into the 

 wood and ftalks of the leaves. 



I repeated the fame experiment on two 

 diftant branches of a large Catharine pear- 

 tree, with ftrong deco<flions of SafTafrafs, and 

 of Elder-flowers, about 30 days before the 

 pears were ripe ; but I could not perceive any 

 tafte of the deco&ions in the pear's. 



Tho' in $11 thefe cafes the fap-veffels of 

 the ftem were ftrongly impregnated with a 

 good quantity of thefe liquors; yet the capil- 

 lary fap-veffels near the fruit were fo fine, 

 that they changed the texture of, and affimi- 

 lated to their own fubftance, thofe high-tafted 

 and perfumed liquors; in the fame manner 

 us grafts and buds change the very different 

 ftp of the flock to that of their own fpecifick 

 nature. 



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