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French lavender grows luxuriantly in the mountainous districts of 

 Southern France, &c. As the lavender blossoms cannot be trans- 

 ported, the distillation is carried on as near as possible to the place of 



collection, as a general rule, in portable stills. At the beginning of the 

 flowering period the distillers take their apparatus to the mountains on 

 mules. In the neighbourhood of a spring the still is erected and heated 



