BREEDING FOR PERFUME 



amount so produced is as nothing compared 

 with the amount necessary for manufacturing 

 in the United States. 



It has been held by some manufacturers 

 that the initial work of producing perfumery 

 could not be carried on successfully in the 

 United States because of the cheapness of the 

 labor of foreign countries. On this point one 

 of the chief manufacturers of perfume in the 

 country says that one of the main reasons why 

 perfumery is not extracted in this country is 

 rather because people pay so much attention 

 to large things in agriculture, — thousand-acre 

 farms and the like, when, in reality, far more 

 money could be made along intensive lines; 

 as, for example, in the line of perfumery pro- 

 duction. When told of the work of Mr. Bur- 

 bank in the breeding of flowers for perfume, 

 he expressed the liveliest interest and amaze- 

 ment, — it was a revelation to him of the 

 possibilities of his own occupation. 



Doubtless, this manufacturer stands for 

 others in his belief that the production of 

 perfumery in this country, — the basic pomades 

 from the flowers themselves, — has never yet 

 been attempted on a large enough scale. The 



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