132 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
a beautiful tree with luxuriant foliage. Character of nut: 
very large, shell thin for this species, excellent cracking 
quality, full kernel. 
Variety Pleas Hybrid (pecan and bitternut). Collinsville, 
Okla. Parent tree standing; very heavy bearer. Character 
of nut: large, shape of pecan but somewhat flattened, excel- 
lent cracking quality, kernel of good quality when fresh. 
Variety Beaver Hybrid (bitternut and shagbark). Millers- 
town, Pa. Parent tree still standing; good bearing record, 
very beautiful and rapid-growing. Character of nut: large, 
shell smooth, white, and of good appearance, good cracking 
quality, kernel full and of good quality but becomes rancid 
sooner than pure shagbarks. 
PERFUME PLANTS 
The use of plants and flowers for perfumery dates from 
antiquity. History first records the use of perfumery for 
religious ceremonies in the form of incense, This consisted 
mainly of aromatic woods and barks, fragrant balms, and 
resins, referred to in the scriptures as frankincense and myrrh 
and the sandal and aloes wood of later date. 
Perfume was essential in all religious ceremonies in Egypt, 
being offered in the form of ointment and incense. No king 
could be crowned without being anointed by the priests, and 
on special occasions incense was offered up in acknowledgment 
of the monarch’s supreme exaltation. That ancient Egyptians 
were skilled in the art of perfumery making is attested by a 
specimen of ointment 3,000 years old in a perfect state of 
preservation at Alnwick Castle Museum, England. 
The Greeks and Romans employed perfumery to a great 
extent, the Greeks in the time of their splendor making cer- 
tain essences similar to modern times. Athenaeus quotes a; 
writer of a treatise on perfumes as saying: ‘‘The iris is best 
in Elis and Cyzicus; the perfume made from roses is most 
excellent at Phaselis, and that made at Naples and Capua is 
also very fine. That made from crocus (saffron) is in the 
highest perfection at Soli in Cilicia, and at Rhodes. The 
essence of spikenard is best at Tarsus, and the extract of vine 
leaves is made best at Cyprus and Adramyttium. The best 
perfume from marjoram and from apples comes from Cos. 
Egypt bears the palm for its essence of cyperus, and the next 
best is the Cyprian and Phoenician, and after that comes the 
Sidonian. The perfume called panathenaicum is made at 
Athens, and those called metopian and mendesian are pre- 
