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generally imported from Brazil, such as tonquin-beans, cloves, vetivert, 

 gum benzoin, &c. ; and others are not known in this country, comprising 

 camara and jerporta beans (a smaller variety of the tonquin), a sort of 

 pimento, and a wild lavender resembling the rbsmarinho (Lavendula stadia) 

 found in Spanish and Portuguese Estremadura. 



France. — Perfumery materials are exhibited by Grasse and Cannes, 

 and comprise pomades and oils obtained by maceration or absortion, and 

 essential oils distilled from various indigenous plants and flowers. They 

 contain nothing particularly novel. An extract said to be made from the 

 flowers of the cotton-tree was found on examination to be a combination. 

 A crystallised oil of patchouli is exhibited, but we could find no special 

 merit in it, as it does not appear stronger or purer than the usual sort. 

 One house sends its essential oils in glass bottles cased in tin, a very 

 appropriate sort of packing, as it excludes light, which impairs the quality 

 of many oils, and at the same time prevents breakage. Nice does not 

 exhibit any products in this department, which is to be regretted, as it 

 possesses peculiar advantages over other localities, especially for violet 

 preparations, of which there is a large consumption. 



The French perfumeiy trade has increased considerably within the 

 last thirty or forty years. The average of — 



Exports for ten years from 1827 to 1836 was 6,000,000 f. 



„ 1837 to 1846 „ 8,000,000 f. 



„ „ 1847 to 1856 „ 10,000,000 f. 



The exports in 1858 were 12,000,000 f. 



„ „ 1860 „ 31,000,000 f. 



The quantities and values of perfumery exported to each different 



country will be found in the following table : — 



Exports of Perfumery from France in the Year 1860. 



Countries to which Exported. 



Quantity in kilos. 



Value in francs. 



United Kingdom .... 



310,033 



2,170,231 



Russia . 











37,769 



331,373 



Zollverein 











75,047 



525,329 



Belgium 











251,326 



1,759,282 



Hanse Towns 











11,376 



70,980 



Portugal 











21,650 



151,550 



Spain 











135,705 



949,935 



Two Sicilies . 











10,353 



72,471 



Sardinian States 











70,483 



493,381 



Tuscany 











13,095 



91,661 



Switzerland . 











45,813 



320,691 



Greece . 











18,305 



128,135 



Turkey . 











129,476 



906,332 



Algeria . 











90,850 



■ 635,950 



Egypt . 











30,816 



215,712 



Tunis and Tripoli 











10,534 



73,738 



Western Africa 











3,042 



21,294 



Cape and Mauritius 











64,096 



448,672 



