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= ‘for distillation are also this year very unpromising. Both Thuringia and the Saxon 
s angelica territory have at their disposal only a moderate crop, but the prices demanded 
are. absolutely prohibitive; and hence the price of angelica oil will be such, that many 
for the oil, which must be reckoned with, has caused us to buy some. Unfortunately 
2 our own aa will yield crops only 4 next haat 
yr of Backhousia bittiddora, “Ik was reported several years ago that the Myrtacea 
Backhousia citriodora. F. von Miller, which grows only between Brisbane afid Gympy, 
Ss yielding - an oil containing 95. per cent. citral was being gradually extirpated’). Mean- 
while these plants have been successfully grown in the Botanical Garden of Sydney, 
and proved that they can be cultivated. Backhousia citriodora is srown from cuttings — 
or seed. In the second year the leaves ‘can be cut off and subjected to distillation. | 
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aI es of a leaves yielded 60 Agee Bie about 0.8 per Con. oF on *). 
ie Oil. — The difficulties of procuring the pure West Indian ‘distillate have <0) 
unfortunately not yet been removed, and consequently the great scarcity of this oil in 
the European markets must still be reckoned with. The demand for Bayrum has greatly eo 
fallen off on account of the prohibitive prices; especially so, as there are other hair- 
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iz washes which have a pleasant and refreshing effect on the Scalp. 
- Although cotton has become the chief article of commerce of Montserrat, yet — 3 : 
, according to a report of the Agricultural Department, the oil of bay industry is 
developing satisfactorily*). The following example shows how. profitable the culture of 
raised in pots, were transplanted on an area of 1 acre. After 21/2 years the leaves 
could be cut for the first time (1368 Ibs. ), and 14 Ibs. of oil worth £7 were distilled. 
_ The yield increased yearly, so that in 1917, 6516 Ibs. of leaves with 71 Ibs. of oil worth 
£46 were obtained. Formerly, only the leaves were cut off, but now the larger boughs 
‘six feet from the ground are sawn off and then stripped of their leaves. It is recommended 
to plant in the vicinity of mountains on account of the greater moisture. The phenol 
content of the oil, which in 1914 to 1916, on an average amounted to only 50.9 per cent., 
rose in 1917 again’ to 55.0 per cent Sica duration of the distillation being the See 
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unfortunately contact with this country will be for some considerable time impossible. 
_ The preparers of trustworthy birch hair-waters must bow to the fact that birch-buds 
and birch-bud oil can hardly ever again be delivered to them in sufficient quantity, 
_ for in view of the awful conditions in Russia, it seems to us more than doubtful that 
_ anyone will take an interest. in the collection of the buds. 
a Several large quantities of birch-sap, which now and again were tiered and of | 
which Our opinion was asked, turned out to be artificial products, which indeed were 
_ cheap, but which were scarcely distinguishable from ordinary rainwater. 
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.. 2) Report April 1913, 29. — 7) Perfum. Record 10 (1919), 209. —. %) Ibidem 213. — 4) Cf. Report 
- 1916, 5; Report 1918, 9. 
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elica Oil. _The prospects of rebiinne sufficient quantities of the root suitable 
users of it will have to do without. Only the fact that we have foreign orders on hand — 
the bay tree, Pimenta acris, Wight, becomes with the times. ‘In 1908 about 800 seedlings — 
Birch-bud Oil. — All efforts to procure birch-buds for distillation have remained 
unsuccessful, since Russia only was in the position to deliver sufficient quantities, and 
