— 99 — 

 Exports of Rose Oil in 1909 and 1910. 



Countries 



From January 

 December 31, 



Kilos 



1 to 



1909 



From January 1 to 

 June 30, 1910 



Kilos 



Austria-Hungary 



United Kingdom 



Germany 



Italy 



Roumania 



16 

 1039 

 1237 



27 



184 



832 



289 



2336 



86 

 7,534 



7 



266 



297 



18 



2 



Russia 



U. S. America 



Turkey 



France 



Netherlands 



Belgium 



81 



281 



5 



272 



1 



1 



Switzerland 



Other countries 



22 

 — 510 



Total 



6053,534 





1253,510 



2336 kilos, or over one-half of the total crop, whereas it appears from 

 the statistics that in the first half of 1910 only 272 kilos were despatched 

 to that country. The total exports in the year 1909 reached a figure of 

 6053 kilos, or nearly 50°/o more than the production of that year, a dis- 

 crepancy which allows us once more to draw certain inferences with regard 

 to the activity of the sophisticating-fraternity. 



According to E. J. Parry 1 ) nonylic- or decylic aldehyde has recently been 

 found in use as an adulterant of rose oil, to which it had been added in 

 the form of a 5°/ solution. Parry has examined a liquid of this kind 

 which had been sent to him from Bulgaria. He describes it as colourless, 

 containing suspended crystals of paraffin, and possessing an odour re- 

 calling that of orange. Its sp. gr. at 30° was 0,813, and the refractive 

 index at 20° 1,3655. The aldehyde isolated from it gave: sp. gr. 0,835, 

 refractive index (20°) 1,4226; its oxime melted after recrystallisation at 68,5°. 



As we have found nonylic aldehyde to be a natural constituent of 

 our German rose oil 2 ), it cannot always be easy to regard an addition 

 of this body as an adulteration; in any case, so far as we are con- 

 cerned we have never, in our numerous examinations, met with a single 

 instance in which we have found it necessary to reject a rose oil for this 

 reason. On the other hand we have in the course of the past few months 

 repeatedly met with oils which had been adulterated with alcohol, as well 



i) Chemist and Druggist 77 (1910), 531. 



2 ) Report October 1900, 55; Walbaum and Stephan, Berl. Berichte 33 (1910), 2302. 



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