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-a’s total | imports from all. countries of the oils exported froin Malaga were: — 
rk eh Me aie es oe . rs hi fiscal year ending 30 June 
ni Dig ede ae - 1915 1916 
eMGk Giese ah Glee eo 441 gf 789 § ‘ 
‘juniper oil . isc? ROBE vies 1988 ,, 
lavender Jes ais lavender oils 117039 ,. 271815 ,, 
risa. Olde erties!) OT 24291 ,, 
Pascimary, Oty 02 OS. i AERO. ,, BO 04 
Patayine: Olheie ge ies: Ly me PBBAOB: S 85913 ,, 
total: 273 362 ¢ 415300 ¥ 
_ The rosemary oil is intended. for debasing olive oil; oil of thyme, for the manu- 
a ture of thymol. ~ ; : 
4 x ‘The Aitiseation of aromatic plants in. Weesiraled — Recently, Hie Victorian Scent and. 
Essential Oil Association was founded in Melbourne’), whose object it is to further the 
cu ultivation of flowers for producing scents and essential oils, to obtain through united 
efforts suitable seeds and plants, to manufacture articles of commerce, to conquer the 
be markets, to lay out at general expense a trial garden for growing aromatic plants 
and to erect works for distillation of essential oils, as well as for their production by 
= ot ther means. State subvention will be oe for. . 
Be a "That the industry of essential oils and aromatics in British India is still on a very 
low y level, may be supposed to be well known’). That such is the case can be clearly 
seen from J. P. Srivastava’ s*) article on the subject. | , 
4 The native manufacturers had given up before the war all paaduuiton of “attars” 
‘fre m fresh flowers, as it was far simpler to make them by perfuming odourless fatty 
ils with imported German artificial flower oils. As the arrivals from Germany ceased, 
ywing to the war, more attention was paid again to the old methods. The centres of 
© perfumery industry are Kanauj, Jaunpur and Ghazipur. The distillation is carried out in 
a nost primitive manner. The still consists of a vessel connected by means of a bamboo 
k with the refrigerator, placed in a tub filled with water. The refrigerating pipe is 
not twisted. The vessel is placed on a hearth and filled with flowers, on which water. _ 
$ poured till they are-covered. Heating is done on an open fire, and as there is no 
ve-bottom in the vessel, the flowers burn quite frequently, which does not improve 
th eproduct. Owing to leakiness and insufficient cooling, there are always losses of 
atile aromatics. It would be easy to improve the eres a Sie but most of 
Bo im ery industry produces specially attars, perfumed waters and ee 
Bey According to Srivastava, one understands by attars products made of sandalwood 
and other, specially odoriferous oils. For this purpose, the ordoriferous essential oil 
istilled into a receiver filled with sandalwood oil. The “attars’ are mostly prepared 
roses, “keora’”’*), “henna’®), “khus’, “joohee” &c. ‘, ; 
2 The scented waters are the by-products of distillation ; especially those of roses 
ook | “keora” are in good demand. ¥ . 
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35 1 1917), Perfum. Record 8 (1917), 188. — *) According to Dymock, Warden and Hooper (Pharmacographica 
in in “oa vol. Mil, p. 535, London, Bombay, Calcutta 1893) Pandanus odoratissimus. — *) According to Dymock 
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