The volume of water applied per plot was calculated as the product of application time and water flow (302.8 L/min). Two hoses sprayed water simultaneously and we estimated that 90% of the spray was applied inside the plot. To construct chemical budgets for the treatments, a 60 ml aliquot of Hubbard Brook stream water was collected prior to each icing, and analyzed for sulfate (SO4), nitrate (NO3) and chloride (Cl) on a Metrohm® Ion Chromatograph; calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), potassium (K), and sodium (Na) on an Agilent® 730 ICP optical emission spectrometer; dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) on a Shimadzu® TOCV with a TNM-1 nitrogen (N) detector; and ammonium (NH4) by colorimetry on a SEAL Analytical AQ2 discrete analyzer at the Louis C<emphasis role="strong">.</emphasis> Wyman Forest Sciences Laboratory, Durham, NH. Dissolved organic N (DON) was calculated as the difference between TDN and inorganic N (NO3-N + NH4-N). Total mass of elements applied to the canopy as iced ‘precipitation’ was calculated as the ‘precipitation’ chemistry from the stream aliquot multiplied by the ‘precipitation’ volume for each plot.