a Societa Neale Pikes, Milan, Via Castelfidardo tol capital 160 
Ing. Pietro. Lanino’s. work | ‘La Nuova | Italia Industrie" once 
thereof to the value of 16 million Lire are Fenomed’ to be lemon e 
price for 1 kilo would be Lire 0.33, whereas according to above » 
the Italian pound (*/s kilo) cost from Lire 3.20. to 3.50. 
The Industry of the essential ae mM Spain) fas developed considerably 
- outbreak of the European war. The chief districts for herb growing. are the 
of Murcia and Malaga, the favourable climatic conditions of which pe: oF 
duty. The chief customers are Eaetnes pages and ‘the United: ‘States ta 1916, t 
United States took essential oils to te value of 211000 Della as eae 9 
rosemary oil = § 50788, lavender ee = § 23 407, ‘origanum oe 
= § 4847, other. essential oils = ih 3684. oe Maat Se ¢ : ; 
last session of the United Provinces Legislative ‘Sarnia (British India) wha 
provincial government had accepted a plan recommended by the. Board of Ind L 
substances. The costs are estimated at 5500 Rupees yearly. These trials ‘will a 
over a period of three years, to begin with. e 
pa 
In an official Dutch paper?) there is an article on essential oe according 
which it is to be presumed that there will be a considerable increase in 1 the! ¢ 
large scale. For this reason attention is called to the various essential oils pro me 
in the Dutch East Indies, which are: . pei ea ee 
Cajuput oil*). The Kajoepoetih tree occurs in the whole a Maley archipelago, § in 1 
plain as well as in the mountains, especially on the Moluccas. It does . not rc 
wild in Java. The distillation of oil from the leaves was introduced at the time 
Boeroe by Europeans and is now still carried out by natives. There are 
500 small “ketels’’®) working, most of which are the property of Chinese Cs 
A ketel consists of alittle wooden building, in which the primitive — dist 
apparatus is put up®). The owners cede the use of this. installation against a 
rent of 10 to 15 guilders; the tenants must bind themselves to sell the oil to the a 
of the ketel. Under normal conditions, the price was about 80 Dutch cents for < bot 
holding 11/2 litre. The article is exported in boxes of 12 to 25 bottles, which are 
posed to hold 540 grams each. Cajuput oil is frequently adulterated with etrol 
light petroleum, &c., by the natives as well as by the Chinese traders. Am 
finding out the adulteration is said to be the simple Sia SOF a a 
a C “hee ns \ 
1) Bol. Of de Minas y Metalurgia, Bol. Industr ial, Chem, Tr. Soe Revue ae Produit f 
Report October 1918, 84. — 7) Nachr. f. Handel, Ind. U. Landw.1919, no. 11 » page Fi pe 
(Den Haag) 12 (1918), 340. — *) Comp. p. 9 of this Pane — 5) The Dutch word 
but in this case a small factory. — 8) Further particulars are to be found in. Te 
