4 4 Vegetable Staticks . 
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-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 decoftions of Saffafrafs, 
and of Elder-flowers, about 30 days before 
the pears were ripe 5 but I could not perceive 
any tafte of the decodtions in the pears. 
Tho* in all thefe cafes the fap-vcflels of 
the ftem were ftrongly impregnated with 
a good quantity of thefe liquors $ yet the 
capillary fap-veffels 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 grafts and buds change the very 
different fap of the flock to that of their 
own fpecifick nature. 
This 
