NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



tion, an hectare of ground, — 2.47 acres, — 

 planted to red roses from which the per- 

 fume chiefly comes, yields 6,600 pounds of 

 roses in a season. When the perfume is ex- 

 tracted there remain 2.2 pounds of rose attar. 

 This sells on the English market at from 

 twenty to thirty shillings per ounce, about 

 $7.50, which is $300 gross income for the 

 hectare of ground. 



Mr. Burbank says that there is no region 

 of the world better adapted for the raising 

 of roses, as well as nearly every other kind 

 of perfume-bearing flower, than California, 

 and that other regions of the United States 

 can produce abundantly many kinds of 

 flowers suited for the manufacture of per- 

 fumes. At the present time this country con- 

 sumes about eight millions of dollars' worth 

 of perfumes a year. The manufacturing of 

 perfumes in the United States has rapidly 

 increased. This manufacture is from pomades 

 or oils containing the scent, and these are 

 made in foreign countries. Now and again 

 sporadic attempts at the extraction of per- 

 fume have been made in this country, notably 

 in the case of orange blossoms, but the 



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