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America wants its own production for home consumption. 
For pure hop oil of our own distillation, lower prices can liardly 
be expected. 
Hyssop Oil. According to examinations made by Gen vr esse 
and Verrier^), hyssop oil contains a cineol which boils at 176°, and 
Avhich yields with hydrobromic acid a crystalline compound which 
cannot be decomposed with water. They also found in the oil a 
tertiary alcohol C^oHT^gO, of the boiling point 210°, at 740 mm, 
^vhich was not identic with any of the hitherto-known alcohols. 
Jasmine Oil ^*Schimmel & Co.". We have within the last 
twelve months made further improvements in the composition of this 
product, which was introduced by us into commerce as the first artificial 
flower oil in 1896. The content of natural constituents of the pure 
flower oil has especiall}' been increased to such an extent, that our 
product makes the impression of being absolutely true to nature. 
We believe that we can characterise it best b}' stating that it 
contains all the constituents of the natural jasmine oil 
obtained from jasmine flowers, and we would ask the numerous 
purchasers of our original product to examine it with special attention. 
We have made arrangements to obtain extraction-products of the jas- 
mine flower on very advantageous terms, and we will go to the utmost 
limits in adding natural constituents (which from the first have been 
present in our oil), as this appears to us the best way of gradually 
approaching the natural oil so closely, that no longer any difference 
between the two oils can be detected. 
In order to prevent all misunderstanding we beg to point out 
here, in our position as prior inventors, and in consequence of an 
agreement, that we are joint owners of the German patent No. 132425 
for the production of artificial jasmine oil. 
Oil of Juniper Berries, Reports from Hungar}- mention 
a failure of the crop and high prices for the new berries. The 
increase is calculated at about 30 per cent. The commercial oil of 
juniper berries, obtained as a b}'-product in the preparation of juniper 
brand}' in Hungary, has under these circumstances found a read}' 
sale, and there are at present no stocks of this oil in existence. As 
the distilling season has commenced during the last few days, the 
scarcity will soon come to an end, but higher prices will become the 
order of the day. 
Of Italian berries from the neighbourhood of Parma, the first 
truck-loads have arri\ ed. Since we made our purchases, the prices of 
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