os eae > AND OTH NOTES ESSENTIAL OILS. si ) 43 
3 a 1 40 per cent. One sample on was tested quantitatively for terpenes, it gave 
about 20 per cent. | . 
. = It is” not mentioned in the essay, in which way Miller identified the various 
con: ituents. 
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ccs. Oil, Anatolian. ‘It was reported in summer 1918 that the prospects for 
Si parta, Vilajet Aidin, &c.) the fields were used in the main for growing cereals or, 
part, left uncultivated altogether‘). The reason for not cultivating roses was, in 
- about 50 to 60000 miscals (1 miscal = 15 dram). Rose oil. is no longer an 
piticlé of commerce ‘properly speaking, but, owing to its high price and its being 
e ed asily handled, a favorite. investment or object of speculation. There is scarcely any 
real market price at present, but what is paid cannot be called excessive, if compared 
v ‘ith the prices before the war. From one source 75 piastres per miscal (about 
TI he. inconsiderable rise is due to. the fact that the Os expo feeulauans Hately 
permit of a Fae export. | 
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3 x Rose Oil, Bulgarian. According to a report’), received by the German Balkan 
So ‘iety, from Kezanlyk, the 1918 production is far behind that of the previous year, 
presumably by 25 per cent. Strong frost in March and the drought during the time 
in iferior too to last year’s, 24 kg. of petals were required for producing 5 g. of otto 
have not been fixed definitely as yet, it is to be expected that they will exceed last 
ear’s by about 40 to 50 per cent. This rise is explained not only by the conditions 
n mentioned before, but is due also to higher wages, higher cost of fuel for distill- 
Bose petals cost 60 stotinki per kilo, this year. 
+ The 1919 crop is. eid to have yielded barely 1500 ‘ee, of oil, being therefore the 
‘sn iallest for many years. As per the communications from our informant, the pro- 
Spects for next year seem to be very unfavourable, as very little attention and care 
war for cereals and leguminous fruits, agriculture has developed only in this 
in i the rose districts. Nevertheless, the rise in the prices of rose oil might have kept 
wi hin reasonable limits, if the Government had not suddenly commandeered all the 
pocks in the hands of producers, dealers and banks, which measure sent the prices 
up by leaps and bounds to the equivalent of about. -Z 10000.—. This step of the 
| Government was necessary in order to secure an article of compensation for the 
food supplies which America was ready to send. It is safe, in consequence, to 
presume that the lion’s share of this year’s production has been shipped to the United 
St es and that present stocks are reduced to what was stored abroad and hence 
scaped commandeering. ; 
a 4 2) Nachr. fe Haid: Ind. vu. Landw. 1918, No. 161, p. 9. — *) Deutsche Levante-Ztg. 8 (1918), 474. 
1918 rose crop in Anatolia were very unfavourable, as in the principal districts: 
addition to the scarcity. of hands, the fact that the wood required as fuel for the 
di distillation can only be had at exorbitant prices. This year’s production is estimated 
of 3100.— per kilo): ‘is named, whereas another firm quotes -# 26000.— per kilo. 
of distilling are responsible for the shortage. As the quality of the flowers was - 
‘in g, &c., and to the fact that the peasants demand very high prices for their produce. | 
he been bestowed on the rose fields. Owing to the fabulous prices obtained during | 
irection, all the more so as the cost of labour, fuel and living has risen tremendously fs 
roses, as compared with 15 to 16 kg. in the year before. Although the prices © | 
