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and the factory, constructed on the most rational principles and 

 provided with the most suital)le installation, has fulfilled its part 

 altooether satisfactorily. " The unsurpassed ciuality of this year's 

 distillate shows clearly the great value, or rather the absolute 

 necessity, of distilling the flowers immediately after gathering. By 

 the present arrangement the lapse of time between the gathering 

 and the distillation is reduced to a few minutes. The factory 

 itself lies close to the Klein-Miltitz station of th.e Thuringian 

 Eailway at the southern end of a rose-field extending without 

 interruption over a surface of about 50 acres. The hall in which 

 the roses are placed when they reach the factory, faces north and 

 is exceedingly cool, while in the factory itself, care has been taken 

 to secure the lowest possible temperature by placing the work- 

 rooms in the Imsement. Each one of the four stills in the factory 

 can easily accommodate a charge of oO cwts. of roses, and the 

 combined plant is able to extract without difficulty the otto of 40 

 tons of roses in the space of 12 hours. In addition to the stills, 

 the factory contains special contrivances for the preparation of 

 rose-water. The stills are charged and emptied automatically in 

 the course of a few minutes, and a few hands are sufficient to deal 

 with the out-put of a whole working day. The total heating 

 surface of the boilers covers about 360 square yards. Although 

 extreme cleanliness is observed throughout the rooms used for the 

 preparation of the oil of roses, it is nowhere carried to greater 

 perfection than in the apartments devoted to the manufacture of 

 rose pommade. In these, floor and walls (the latter covered with 

 China tiles), dispute the palm of cleanliness to the glittering 

 centrifugal machines and boilers." The Eeport continues : — " We 

 continue to make a speciality of the manufacture of Eosc-icatcr in 

 two strengths, viz : — 



" Double " . . .(two pts. by weight of roses to one pt. of water) 

 " Sextuple " ...(six „ „ to one „ 



Both are obtained directly from the roses, and not as a by-product 

 in the distillation of rose oil. The sextuple rose water represents 

 the highest ohtai7iaNe concentration. If placed in ice over night, 

 small drops of oil, clearly discernable, separate out on the surface. 

 Given normal flowers, a rose-water prepared from more than six 

 times its weight of roses would only retain the whole of its oil in 

 solution at a temperature below the normal point, and thus become 



