72 







1910 





1909 





1908 



Germany 



abt. 



360 000 



cwts. 



190 000 cwts. 



535 000 cwts. 



Austria-Hungary 



» 



320 000 



ii 



175 000 



11 



400 000 „ 



United Kingdom 



11 



310 000 



11 



200 000 



ii 



475 000 „ 



America 



11 



350 000 



11 



400 000 



11 



425 000 „ 



Other countries 



ii 



160 000 



ii 



90 000 



11 



250 000 „ 



Total crop 



abt. 



1 500 000 cwts. 



1 055 000 cwts. 



2 085 000 cwts. 



Hyssop Oil. Our cultures at Miltitz have yielded ample results this 

 year, and we have therefore been able to distil the whole of our re- 

 quirements ourselves. In France the distillation of hyssop oil has been 

 practically abandoned, because the article is included among those which, 

 since the coming into force of the well-known Absinth Act, may only 

 be manufactured under very irksome official control. 



Jasmin flower oil. F. Elze 1 ) found p-cresol and geraniol to be new 

 constituents of jasmin flower oil. He isolated p-cresol from the oil in 

 the usual manner with 2°/o potash liquor, and identified it from the p-cresyl- 

 methylether (b. p. 175° at 748,5 mm.; di 5 o 0,964), which, when oxidised 

 with permanganate of potassium, yielded anisic acid. In the oil which had 

 been freed from p-cresol the author found geraniol, which he isolated by 

 way of the calcium chloride compound from the fractions boiling between 

 75 and 102° (3 mm.), after treating them with phthalic anhydride: b. p. 

 129 to 130° (25 mm.), di 5 o 0,883, « D i0, m. p. of the diphenylurethane 82°. 

 The geraniol is present in the oil in the free state. 



Juniper berry Oil. The old stocks have been completely cleared 

 out in the course of the summer, and it is therefore all the more satis- 

 factory to find that in all countries producing juniper-berries — notably 

 in Italy and Hungary — excellent corps have been gathered this year, as 

 a result of which it has been possible to replenish the stocks of oil at 

 advantageous prices. We call attention to the fact that the quotations in 

 our list have been reduced. 



Wallach 2 ) has shown the presence of pinene, and we have proved 

 that of cadinene 3 ), in the terpene-fractions of juniper oil. In our Report 

 of October 1909 (p. 71), we communicated the results of an examination 

 of the oxygenated compounds of the oil, which, according to our showing, 

 consisted mainly of terpinenol-4, in addition to other alcohols which were 

 not identified more closely. 



We are now able to give further particulars as to the terpene-fractions. 

 The pinene-fraction of our oil possessed the following properties: b. p. 156 



!) Chem. Ztg. 34 (1910), 912. 



2 ) Liebigs Annalen 277 (1885), 288. 



3 ) Bericht April 1890, 43. 



