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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