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Rose Oil, German. This year's harvest in our fields at Miltitz 

 has been carried out under normal conditions, although, owing to the 

 coolness of the weather, with some delay. Bright, but not too warm 

 weather during the flowering time allowed the roses to unfold gradu- 

 ally, so that we were able to avoid a sudden accumulation of gathered 

 flowers. Notwithstanding this, the oil output has left something to be 

 desired, although it has not been necessary on this account to 

 raise the prices. As regards quality, our rose oil of this year's crop 

 is quite worthy of its predecessors. 



Rosemary Oil. For Dalmatian rosemary oil the same price is 

 asked as last year, but it appears to us probable that within the next 

 few months the market may be expected to give way. Since rose- 

 mary oil has ceased to be used for spirit denaturing to the same 

 extent as formerly it will become more difficult to find an outlet for 

 the production, which has not grown less. French rosemary oil has 

 shown a rising tendency and the market continues firm, notwithstand- 

 ing the competition of the Tunisian oil, which, although not quite equal 

 to the French oil in quality, is frequently offered at lower rates. 

 Detailed reports about the article are wanting, but we shall probably 

 be justified in assuming that, as in the case of spike oil, the distilling 

 season this year is likely to give only a moderate result. 



Samphire Oil {Essence de criste- marine). From samphire (Crith- 

 mum maritimum L., N. O. Umbelliferae), an oil may be obtained which, up 

 to the present, has been but little investigated, the only known refer- 

 ences concerning it in literature occurring in some old investigations 

 by G. Lavini and H. Herouard 1 ). According to a recent publication 

 by F. Borde 2 ) an essential oil has been distilled from the plant gathered 

 almost at the end of the flowering season. The plant contained 

 8o°/ of water. The oil-yield was as follows. Of plants collected 

 in the first half of August, leaves and stems gave 0,3 °/ , fruit 0,7 °/ ; 

 in the second half of August 0,15 and 0,8 °/ , and in the middle of 

 September 0,154 and 0,7 °/ respectively. The oil from the leaves 

 and stalks is specifically heavier than that from the fruit; it has a 

 deep-yellow colour, and an aromatic, somewhat pungent odour of 

 the plant. The crushed fruits, however, yield a pale yellow oil, 

 which has a pleasant odour, especially when the fruit has een air- 

 dried. The subjoined table gives the properties of the oil from the 

 various parts of the plant, "A" being oil from leaves and stems, "B" 

 from fruit. 





x ) Mem. della Reale Ace. delle Scienze di Torino 25, 13; Journ. de Pharm. 

 et Chim. IV. 3 (1866), 324. 



2 ) Bull, des Sciences Pharmacol. 16 (1909), 132. Through Chem. Zentralbl. 

 1909, I. 1566. 



