. The New York Oil, Paint ai Dee Reporter?) publishes fie: pes | 
concerning what happened in, May: (234 genes aly 
roses, the only product Buleana has at her disposal for ees to tice 
total quantity has been shipped already to America and is under the joint contr 
the U. S. Food Administration and a Bulgarian official, called L. Getschcoff 
June mu Dn cpema res took place with the principal eee rose oil, oe 
expectations, who had asked for more. Generally Beaming! the Amer consum rs 
refuse to pay this fabulous price and have availed themselves very little of the sto S. 
It is not known what quantity the U. S. Government. holds for account of the 
Bulgarians, but it is supposed to be considerable. Bulgaria was willing to pay the 
foodstuffs in gold, but the United States demanded goods. In consequence, the Bul. 
garians raised their prices at once, in order to get rid of their debts quickly. It wou 
_be interesting to know how ee adulterated oil the UV. S. Cove accepted | in 
these. purchases. gfe Ry 
Otto of roses being so valuable just now, adulterations are highly femuneaves 
especially if practised to such an extent as was the case with a sample submitted 
to us for testing. The admixture, consisting of palmarosa oil most likely, amounted 
to 20 or 30 per cent., as could be inferred from the geraniol content, which was 
79.4 per cent., whereas it never exceeds 75 per cent. with a normal otto of rose 
Besides, the adulteration had raised the specific gravity, the refraction and the est 
value, but lowered the point of solidification. Rotation and acid value were normal: 
doo 0.8659, a —1° 50’, npss0 1.46628, solidification point --15.4°, acid v. 0.5, ester v. 19.2 
Another oil. was apparently adulderated in a simliar way, only that it had bee 1 
done more artfully. It had been tried to balance the lowering of the solidificatic 
point, caused by the palmarosa oil, by adding spermaceti, but the dose had ‘be 
_exaggerated. Hence the oil solidified at 28°, as compared with 18 to 23. 5° for t 
normal commercial quality. The stearoptene isolated from it distinguished itself co: 
siderably in melting point and saponification from pure rose oil stearoptene. Where: 
this melts at about 35° and has a saponification number of from 3 to 7, the stearo 
tene of the oil in question melted between 49 and 51° and showed a saponifica 
value of 123.2, which proved that it consisted in the main of Spernar ae is ny 
to 54°, sap. v. 128 to 130). 
This result was sufficient to confirm that the oil had been grossly adulterate 
that we thought it superfluous to go further into the chemical examination, - or 
establishing the physical properties: dyso 0,8619, % —1°26’, npsso 1.40971. Th ‘i 
cessive specific gravity, which corresponds to 0.8656 at 300, calls Bee at enti 
Rose Oil from Cyprus. Only -quite occasionally notes have. ap 
production of otto of roses in Cyprus, ees which an | article was. 
1) Chemist ea Druggist 91 (1919), 723. 
