ooh difference or sertlitne’ oil became manifest when camparias it site the con- 
st its ‘of the latter. oil: — diso 0.905 to 0.925; a) — 37° to — 43°; ester content, 29 to 
40 per cent.; soluble’ in 0.5 to 1 vol. 90 percent. alcohol. In smell, too, there was not 
the least Peabinnce, Probably, the mixture contained a heavy amount of Rin tar not 
Tt is astonishing that such stuff still finds purchasers. _ 
E ie Pine Needle Oil. see oil, when genuine, does, ae canine to Tsakalotos’), 
ot show | lzvorotation, as is stated in Gildemeister’s text-book (2"4 German ed., 
pe 13;) 200 English ed., “vol. Il, p. 127), but is” dextrorotatory. The genuine ail 
consists largely of d-pinene, a sample from Attica was found to have [e])-+ 39.4°. 
he statement in Gildemeister and Hoffmann’s peor os in Tsakalotos’ Opinion, due to 
a confusion with the oil of Pinus mar ‘itima, Mill. 
_ We are obliged to reply that can be no sncuren of such an erroneous statement 
: our part, since the data given in Gildemeister’s book concerning the lzvorotation . . 
= taken from Belloni’s*) work entitled, “sull’ essenza di gemme di Pinus maritima, 
” Now the latter name is synonymous to Pinus halepensis, Mill., the Aleppo pine. 
istake can have happened merely to Belloni in eee Banus maritima, Mill. 
with P. maritima, Poit. 
_ The oil of Penne from the peeve pine is also dextorotatory: — [eln-F47 to 48°. 
f. - eee Oil. See page 82 of this Report.on rosemary oil aan Baith East Africa. 
_ Otto of Roses, Anatolian. The production of rose oil in Turkey (2) in 1917 has 
-been brilliant, as the German Consul General in Constantinople reports under 
Se ember 21st 1917*). In some districts it has been impossible to gather the flowers 
in time for lack of hands. In addition, fire-wood was scarce owing to the rise in prices. 
As the distillation was thus reduced, it is estimated that the total production of rose 
i oa is one third smaller than in the previous year. One reckons with only 40000 to ~ 
10.00 miskals (1 jis hs lig a /2 dram). oh the flowers were good, the quality of the 
1 is likewise so. 
q Be srrcarativcty little has been exported so far, owing to the difficulties of transport. 
: he “stocks in Constantinople from old crops and the new one together are estimated 
at at 150000 miskals, those at Smyrna.also at 150000 miskals and those in the interior 
at 100000 miskals, so that 400000 miskals would be available in Turkey. 
In ‘spite of the small exports, prices have gone up considerably, especially because 
cr les that otherwise have had nothing to do with rose oil, have seized this article 
S$ a suitable investment for speculation. The prices range at present between 30 and 
5 0 pias ters per miskal. : 
Fito « of eece’ Bulgarian. During the last years, rose growing has gone down. 
n Br algaria instead of increasing, as- the peasants prefer growing indian corn instead’). 
a 4 ots October 1916, 45. — 2) Gazz. chim. ital. 47° (1917), 1. 285; Jowrn. chem. Soc. “112 (1917) 1. 577. — 
) ‘An nuario della Soc. chim. di. Milano 11 (1905), fase. 6; Chem. Zentralbl. 1906, 1. 360. — 4) Nachr. f. Hand., 
nd 4, Lantho. (1917, No. 83, page 3. — 5) Bulgarische Handelszeitung ; Die Seife 2 (1917), No. 18, page 7. 
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