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the day when the great Creator gave" food for the cattle 

 and " herb for the service of man " the perfume-distilling leaves 

 have been with us as they will be with us in joy and in sorrow, 

 in life, in love, and in death, to the end of time. 



ABC LIST OF PERFUMES, ESSENTIAL OILS, &c, 

 AND PLANTS WHICH AFFORD THEM. 



" The breath of flowers is far sweeter upon the air where it comes and 

 goes like the warbling of music than in the hand ; therefore nothing is 

 more fit for that delight than to know something of the flowers that do best 

 perfume the air." — Lord Bacon. 



According to Dr. Piesse, the six plants grown most extensively 

 for perfume are Jasmine, Acacia, Roses, Bergamo t, Orange 

 Violet, and the Tuberose. 



This list does not profess to be complete, since nearly every 

 plant that grows has odour or fragrance of some sort or other, 

 however slight it may be. Even species and varieties of the 

 same species vary very much in odour, as is abundantly proved 

 by species of, say, Dendrobium, Reseda, or Diosma, and by 

 varieties of H.P. or Tea-scented Roses, Apples, Pears, or Sweet 

 Oranges, no two varieties smelling or tasting precisely alike. 

 This is even true sometimes of individual fruits off the same 

 tree. All that is here attemped is to give a bird's-eye view of 

 the plants most generally grown for fragrance, and especially of 

 those having sweet-scented leaves as well as flowers. 



The growth or evolution of the perfumer's art began in Egypt 

 and Greece, having probably come thence from the East. From 

 Greece it naturally came to Rome, and thence to France long 

 before it reached our own shores. 



The master perfumers of Paris received a charter from 

 Philip Augustus of France in 1190, but the trade scarcely began 

 in England until the time of Elizabeth; and even so late as 1860 

 there were only forty manufacturing perfumers in all England, 

 while at the same date there were eighty in Paris alone. There 

 does not appear ever to have been a perfumers' company in 

 London. No such trade as that of a perfumer was known in 

 Scotland until after the year 1763. 



