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through our Barreme works, stand in the closest relation to the districts in 

 question, we will not fail to keep our readers informed on this subject. 



Rose Oil, German. As could only be expected in face of 

 the unfavourable weather conditions during the developing-period of 

 the blossoms, this year's distillation result falls quantitatively far short 

 of the average of previous years. Although the fields in flower 

 afforded a magnificent spectacle, and the quantity harvested turned 

 out normal, the roses were very poor in oil owing to the cool 

 weather, — a fact which has also frequently been observed in 

 Bulgaria in the course of the present season. In point of quality 

 our rose oil can this year again be characterised as excellent, and 

 we are convinced that our small stock will soon be cleared. 



Rose Oil, Russian. For the production of rose oil and rose 

 water, the inhabitants of the Eastern Trans-Caucasus *) have commenced 

 the cultivation of a semi-double strongly smelling rose of Persian origin. 

 In other districts, various plantations have been made of Kezanlik roses, 

 particularly near Raevsk, Tremyuksk, Gelendshik, and New Athens. In 

 the last-named place there exists also a factory of rose oil and rose 

 water for which in Moscow 10 roubles per pood are paid; the oil costs 

 about 115 roubles per lb. The first garden covering six dessiatines, 

 which was laid out in 1898, is near New Pareula, where also a distillery 

 is established which produces an excellent oil. This product is sold 

 at 200 roubles per lb., the rose water at 10 roubles per pood. Smaller 

 plantations of Kezanlik roses are also found in other districts of the 

 Trans-Caucasus. 



Rosemary Oil. On the part of the Dalmatian producers, a 

 tendency is becoming apparent to raise the prices of the pure distillate; 

 but the competition of the French product, which is offered this year 

 again at very advantageous prices,- has a counteracting effect on this 

 tendency, and the manufacturers will doubtless be compelled, whether 

 they like it or not, to abate their demands, if they do not wish to run the risk 

 of having at least a portion of their production thrown on their hands. 



Sage Oil. A Syrian oil of sage which we had -received from 

 Jaffa, whose mother-plant, according to Dr. A. Ginzberger, Assistant 

 at the Botanical Institute of Vienna, is Salvia triloba L., had the 

 following constants: di 5 o 0,9 1 1 6 ; « D — 3°28 / ; ester no. 10,3, corres- 

 ponding to 3,6 °/o bornyl acetate; soluble in 15 to 16 and more vol. 

 70 per cent, alcohol; soluble in 1 and more vol. 80 per cent, alcohol. 



This oil differs from the Dalmatian oil of sage (from Salvia 

 officinalis L.), which it resembles in the odour, especially by the low 

 specific gravity and the optical lsevorotation. It appears, however, to 



*) Chemist and Druggist 70 (1907), 815. 



