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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 5 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 feented orange-flower-watcr ; 
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 decodions of faflafras, 
and of elder flowers, about 30 days before 
the pears were ripe; but I could not per- 
ceive any tafte of the decodions in the pears. 
Tho’ in all thefe cafes the fap-veflels of 
the ftem were ftrongly impregnated with 
a good quantity of thefe liquors 5 yet the 
capillary fap-veflels near the fruit were fo 
fine, that they changed the texture of, and 
aflimilated to their own fubftance thofe high 
tafted and perfumed liquors ; in the fame 
manner as gralFs and buds change the very 
different fap of the flock to that of their 
own fpecifick nature. 
This 
