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The figures of the exports of the last ten years are as follows : 
1893: 588334 kilos, value 9356814L. 1898: 667 293 kilos, value 9015 083 L. 
1894: 666740 „ „ 8308148 „ 1899: 797145 r 10722445 „ 
1895: 554191 8081870 „ 1900: 842246 „ „ 10972295 „ 
1896: 514067 „ „ 7579424,, 1901: 820982 „ „ 12314730 „ 
1897: 732092 „ „ 9719133 1902: 1085497 „ „ 15196958,, 
Bergamot Oil. This year's distillation has left much to be 
desired. A much smaller quantity of fruit was worked up than in 
the previous year, and the oil-content also did not justify the hopes 
which had been entertained. It was fortunate that abroad a large 
proportion of the previous year's rich harvest had remained unsold, 
and that the demand in November and up to January was com- 
paratively small; if there had been a strong demand, the price of 
this article would have risen considerably already at the beginning 
of the manufacturing season. In view of the above-mentioned small 
demand from abroad, the speculators, who at Reggio had formed a 
combine, were unable, in spite of the greatest efforts, to drive up 
the prices during the manufacturing season, and their endeavours 
were not crowned with success until in the course of last month a 
stronger demand began to assert itself on the market. 
The present situation is this, that the comparatively small export 
has left considerable stocks of bergamot oil over for the new season, 
stocks which amount to fully 25000 kilos. 
At the present time the bergamot-trees are already in leaf, thanks 
to a winter free from gales, and they justify the hope of a good 
harvest. If this supposition is confirmed by a rich development of 
blossoms and a good germination of fruit, the speculators will prob- 
ably lose courage, and they may show greater willingness than 
hitherto to realise their holdings. For this reason there is no great 
belief in a further rise of the prices; on the contrary, the presumption 
is that in the summer months it will be possible to buy cheaper 
than now. 
Citron Oil. S. Gulli has now published the contemplated 
supplement to his previous notes on citron oil^), and thereby added 
a valuable contribution to the knowledge of this oil. The oil previous!}' 
examined by him, prepared from ^'cedrr\ agreed (as we wish once 
more to point out) in its physical constants with the oil which we 
had at the time under examination, but differed in a marked degree 
from that which Burgess had before him. The oil recently tested 
by Gulli, which had been made from "■cedrini''^ (derived from Citrus 
medica gibocarpa or citred) corresponded in its physical constants to 
^) The Chemist and Drugg. 62 (1903), 22. 
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