32 REPORT OF SCHIMMEL & Co. OCTOBER 1915. 
of the numerous users of the English oil, the more so as no German nor Austro- 
Hungarian consumer can be expected to use English peppermint oil in future. We 
always maintained that English Mitcham peppermint oil was greatly overvalued, and 
our exhaustive practical experiments have justified this opinion beyond doubt. By 
resorting to a special fractionating and rectifying process, the peppermint distilled in 
the United States from Mitcham plants will produce an oil which can be looked upon 
as a full substitute of the English distillate. Away therefore with English Mitcham — 
peppermint oil from German and Austro-Hungarian recipes and prescriptions! Expert 
opinion which has reached us so far confirms our statement that our new quality is 
really a complete substitute for the English oil. Needless to say it comes up to the 
all the requirements of the German Pharmacopoeia. 
Peppermint Oil from British East Africa. A peppermint oil obtained from 
‘Mitcham plants in Molo (British East Africa) showed the following properties: d 0.967; 
&py — 33° 30’. Total menthol amounted to 67.5 p.c. It dissolved in 3 vol. of 70 p.c. 
alcohol and became opalescent on addition of 10 vol.. The odour was excellent?*). 
Peppermint Oil, Russian. From an English contemporary’) we cull a few notes 
on peppermint cultivation in Ukraine. Formerly the oil produced in that country was 
chiefly used in the local tobacco industry, but the yearly production has become bigger. 
It now amounts to about 20000 Ibs. of peppermint and 1000 Ibs. of spearmint oils, 
so that the distillers find themselves compelled to sell part of their output abroad. 
The properties of Ukraine peppermint oil are as follows: d0.904; «)— 26°; total menthol 
53.8 p.c.; ester (calculated as menthyl acetate) 6.0 p.c.; soluble in 3 vol. of 70 p.c. 
alcohol, upon addition of 10 vol. the solution becomes slightly opalescent. 
Petitgrain Oil. According to an abstract from the Review of River Plate*), the 
export of petitgrain oil from Paraguay amounted to 71 322 Ibs. in 1913, against 52704 Ibs. 
in 1912. This quantity was distributed as follows amongst the principal consuming 
countries : — | 
France & 0". /, 2, oe yoo aOUuIbs: 
ATSentine > as, see oe Cee ZO A ee 
Italy. 2. 20 ou, ¢. Cee eee eo ao: 
Austria-Hungary . Woe ete 2) ef4a0k 
Gérmaiic. 3... age oo LO ee 
These figures, needless to say, do not give a correct idea of the consumption of 
the oil in the various countries, many of which receive the oil in transit only. Thus 
it is assumed that in the figure mentioned for Argentine, 16821 Ibs. are included which © 
were proved to have been sent to the United States. By the way, petitgrain oil is the 
only product exported to the United States from the Consular District of Asuncion. 
Rose Oil, Bulgarian. It is not to be wondered at that prices for rose oil, 
which had reached nearly -# 3000.— per kilo (approximately 83/- per oz.), before 
the war could not be maintained at this level. It is but natural that the consumption 
1) Perfum. Record 6 (1915), 3. — %) Perfum. Record & (1914), 314. — 8) Commerce Reports 1915, 114. 
