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times or so at intervals of twelve to forty hours. The sub- 

 stance thus obtained is either used as a pomade, or, being 

 digested in alcohol, the perfume is taken up, forming an 

 extract. 



Still another method is that of enfleurage or absorption, in 

 which thin plates of glass are evenly spread with coatings of 

 grease upon which the flowers are placed. The glass plates 

 are placed in frames which support them one above the other, 

 and the flowers are renewed from day to day. Enfleurage is 

 the most delicate of all methods of perfumery extraction and 

 gives the best results. 



In a consideration of the most suitable substances for treat- 

 ment, roses probably come first. Of perfumery articles im- 

 ported the highest value is that of the attar of roses. More- 

 over, every traveler throughout the South and the far West 

 is impressed with the abundant floral growth and the odorous 

 air of those regions, while the distillation of the attar may 

 be begun by anyone with no more than the most meagre out- 

 lay of capital. It is not meant that rose growing for their 

 perfume might not be made profitable in other regions than 

 those named. Turkish attar of roses is mainly produced upon 

 the southern slopes of the Balkans, and there there is an abun- 

 dance of cold and snow, rainfall and drouth, as the seasons 

 follow each other. There the rose harvest begins about the 

 last of May and continues only for a month. In comparison 

 there is, therefore, almost no section of this country where 

 rose growing for perfumery might not be entered upon with 

 some hope of success, but other sections seem particularly 

 adapted to this industry. There are wide regions where odor- 

 ous roses may be grown from six to nine months of the year, 

 and since it is known that their fragrance may be increased 



