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plants and it was decided that, at the suggestion of Mr. Smith, 
a mild treatment of carbon bisulphide should be adopted. 
A motion was made, seconded by Mr. Dole, that the bananas 
be removed to the Federal Station to be cared for where they 
could be watched and be under the direction of the Board and 
the Board's entomologists could see them at any time. 
Mr. Carter moved an amendment to this motion, stating that 
the bananas be first disinfected at the Nursery and then turned 
over to the Director of the Federal Experiment Station for propa- 
gation and care, it being understood that the suckers be dis- 
tributed subject to the option of the Board. Motion carried. 
Mr. Higgins of the U. S. Experiment Station, stated that he 
had given considerable time reading up literature pertaining to 
banana growing, in many countries, as Jamaica, West Indies, 
Central America, South America, Madagascar, Canary Islands. 
So far as he has been able to discover he has found no one 
complaining of the appearance of the borer, and further states 
that the bananas there are practically free from insect pests. 
He also stated that no other insect has proved injurious to any 
extent, except the black Aphid, which is already existing here. 
Mr. \^an Dine said that there was not a great amount of soil 
with the plants, and in his opinion they will all germinate. 
PRODUCTIOX OF VOLATILE OILS AND PERFUMERY 
PLANTS. 
Of the countless numbers of plants in the vegetable kingdom, 
many possess peculiar aromatic odors. Before the art of distilla- 
tion was known, the ancient peoples used odoriferous plants and 
spices in their dried forms for their agreeable odors. Gradually, 
however, the development of special utensils for other domestic 
purposes may have resulted in the discovery of methods for the 
separation of odors from plants and plant products. The first 
mention in ancient Greek writings of the separation of an odor 
from a crude substance is that of the oil of cedar, which was 
separated from the oleoresin by means of the crudest form of ap- 
paratus. With the development of the necessary apparatus, ex- 
tensive perfumery industries have arisen. In southwestern 
France a general perfumery industry of great importance, based 
on the production of lavender, cassie, rose, violet, and other per- 
fumery plants, has grown up. The attar of roses from Bulgaria 
and Turkey, the rose-geranium oils from Algeria, Reunion, and 
other French colonies, the lavender and other essential oils from 
England, and the citrus oils from Italy, as well as the lemon- 
grass, citronells, vetiver, and other volatile-oil and perfume-pro- 
ducing products from India, may be mentioned as important in- 
