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the close of the present Report our correspondents informed us 

 that the stocks of merchantable oils were completely exhausted and that 

 the market-price in the producing districts had reached 1600 francs per kilo. 

 The reason why, in spite of this, the quotations abroad could not be 

 levelled up to show a corresponding increase was primarily that in the 

 course of the year 1909 the trade had laid in plentiful supplies, but also 

 because the term "pure rose oil" is regarded by many firms as conveying 

 a very elastic meaning, and on occasion is made to conform altogether 

 with the buyer's notions of the price he should pay. In transactions of 

 this class the cost -price of the original oil plays only a very subordinate 

 part. Of course it is as yet possible to say but little concerning the 

 coming crop, but as the rose-plantations everywhere are said to have 

 stood the winter well, it is thought that even at the present time a better 

 result than that of 1910 may be prognosticated. No new statistical material 

 of importance is available, but the comparative table printed hereafter, 

 showing in detail the position of the rose oil industry during the past 

 two years, may be of interest. 



As regards the exports of rose oil, only the details for 1909 and the 

 first half-year of 1910 are at present available, and these we print on 

 the next page, reserving their completion for our next Report. 



The pronounced falling-off in exports is of course ascribable in the 

 first place to the fact that in 1909 France had laid in exceptionally heavy 

 supplies, in anticipation of the impending revision of her Customs Tariff. 

 The exports to that country in the year 1909 amounted to not less than 



Distribution of the Rose Oil Industry in Bulgaria 

 in the years 1909 and 1910. 









1909 



1910 





Number 



Area under 



Yield of 



Number 



Area under 



Yield of 



District 



of Com- 



Cultiv. 



Rose Oil 



of Com- 



Cultiv. 



Rose Oil 





munes 



Decares 



Kilos 



munes 



Decares 



Kilos 



Karlovo 



38 



28 689,2 



1472 



40 



28 726,2 



1245 



Kazanlik . 







42 



25 307,9 



1780 



44 



25 034,3 



1166 



Philippopoli 







16 



8 225,9 



352 



16 



9191,7 



226 



Tchirpan . 







16 



5 071,3 



201 



16 



4 512,6 



111 



Stara-Zagora 







14 



2 437,6 



155 



15 



2 740,8 



165 



Nova-Zagora 







13 



2 069,5 



192,500 



12 



2 051,4 



136 



Panagurichte 







2 



404 



24 



2 



429,3 



4 



Pechtera . 





. 



7 



1 606,1 



122 



6 



1 448,4 



75 



T. Pazardjik 







3 



84,7 



16 



3 



82,2 



20 



Stanimaka . . 







1 



4,6 



5 



— 



— 



— 





152 



73 940,8 



4319,500 



154 



74 216,9! 



3148 



