

54 Report of Schimmel $ Co. April/October 1917. 



four weeks. Otherwise it is only a matter of calculation, whether to choose the 

 expensive imported coal or the cheaper indigenous product, but in any case no lack 

 of coal is to be dreaded even in the case of political troubles, owing to the presence 

 of coal-mines in the country. 



The manufactures of otto of roses and the Government show a keen interest for 

 the introduction of new distilling apparatus and have in several cases granted con- 

 siderable amounts for the purpose. 



It is easily understood that modern distilling plants will only prove remunerative 

 in the large rose-growing centres, where the rose gardens are not too far apart from 

 one another. It would naturally be the best for all rose growers to create such plants 

 on a co-operative basis, but, generally, they are quite small farmers, who own no 

 more than a few donums and have neither capital nor initiative for such under- 

 takings on a large scale. Only the more important, well-funded people or private com- 

 panies may come into consideration. German capital and German enterprise, combined 

 with a sound knowledge of the matter, would here find a promising field of action, 

 especially in connection with rose farming, supposing that those concerned understand 

 how to adapt themselves to the peculiarities of the country and of its people, with 

 whom it is often difficult to deal. 



Constantinople, December 19 th , 1916. 



Following up above article, we would here insert a communication of the German 

 Consulate in Constantinople 1 ), dated January 6 th , 1917, according to which it is impossible 

 to give figures with a claim to exactitude as to the production of rose oil in 1916, 

 the reports from the interior being altogether inadequate 2 ). The yield is estimated at 

 from 40000 to 50000 miskals (1 miskal = 4.811 grams). Owing to the abundance of 

 flowers and the favourable weather, a good result was counted upon, but as the 

 roses contained but little oil and there was a lack of hands, the yield came far short 

 of that in the previous year. Notwithstanding, the olfactive value of the 1916 oil is 

 very high. 



Like in 1915, there was a deadlock in the rose trade in the past year, there being 

 almost no demand at all. The low level, the value of the article had reached, 

 attracted the speculation, which sent the prices up to 22 and even 25 piastres per 

 miskal. These speculative purchases had, however, little to do with the export. In 

 consequence, the crops of the two last years will therefore almost entirely be in Turkey 

 still, and it is thought that the present stocks are comparatively speaking rather con- 

 siderable. 



Rose Oil, Bulgarian. As per a report of the German Consulate in Sofia, dated 

 May 24 th , 1917 s ), the rose buds had appeared towards the end of April almost every- 

 where in Kazanlik, Karlovo, Nova Zagora, $c. Scarcely any damage has been caused 

 by cold weather or frost, but a kind of small grub, which appeared this year in larger 

 numbers than before, handicapped many of the young flower-buds in their development. 

 Hot and dry weather during the crop most unfavourably influenced the yield in oil, 

 as is generally the case, so that according to the investigations of our informant, 

 there were 4000 kilos of flowers required, this year, to produce 1 kilo of oil. The 

 total yield of the 1917 crop is estimated at 2100 kilos, which means a further shortage, 



*) Nachr. f. Hand., Ind. u. Landiv. 1917, N° 8, page 3. — ") Asia Minor (Anatolia). — 8 ) Nachr. f. 

 Hand., Ind. u. Landiv. 1917 ; N° 46, page 2. 



