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The essential extract-oil, which can be readily obtained from orange- 
blossom extract by treatment with alcohol and steam distillation, 
showed the following constants: d = 0,913 ; = — 2 ester-content 
41 per cent, calculated on linalyl acetate; content of methyl anthra- 
nilate 6,5 per cent. It differs from neroli oil by a much higher ester- 
content. 
We have recently detected in neroli oil, phenyl ethyl alcohol, by 
its urethane melting at 80^, and we have found that the presence of 
jasmone is probable, for we obtained from the corresponding fraction 
a semicarbazone of the melting point 200° to 204^. 
Neroli Oil (artificial) **Schimmel & Co." Our original pro- 
duct has reached a very high degree of perfection through the im- 
portant results of our examinations which we published on pages 52 
to 58 of our Report of October 1902, and which we have turned to 
account in practice. We have made special arrangements for the 
production of the natural plant-constituents contained in the oil, for 
which we are very favourably situated. 
Our original product should not be confounded with the many 
inferior mixtures which are much puffed up in the trade and are 
hawked about at all prices. Where cheapness is a consideration, it 
is in any case much better to buy a product like ours, and to cheapen 
it oneself with petit-grain or bergamot oil. 
Oil of Nutmeg. Although the light waste material which is 
used for the manufacture of this oil really forms an article by itself, 
its price has not been left untouched by the great advance in the 
price of nutmeg. For a time the demand for the essential oil was 
exceptionally strong. 
Orris Oil. We have received, from a wholly reliable and best 
informed quarter, the following special report on the present situation 
of the Florentine market: 
The harvest of 1902 gave a total yield of about 1000 tons, or i 000000 kilos, 
since the producers, encouraged by the rising prices in November, also gathered 
the two-year old roots, and at the same time did not in every locality reduce 
the new planting to such an extent as at the end of last summer appeared to 
be the case. 
If we add to the above-mentioned crop of 1000 tons 
the old stocks still on hand 400 ,, 
we commence with a total quantity of 1400 tons. 
Against this, deliveries from the beginning of September 
to the end of February 1903 amounted to about . . 470 ,, 
leaving a balance at present of about 930 tons. 
But further important quantities have already been sold for gradual forward 
delivery, and based upon the deliveries which have taken place up to the 
present, it may be assumed that when the new crop comes in, some 500 or 
600 tons may still be available of the above 930 tons. To this must then 
