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with another, producing what is known in the trade as mille-fleurs. This is one 
of the advantages pertaining to the latter mode. These scents are sold under 
their own names to the dealers or manufacturtng perfumers. The latter blend 
them, reduce them, mix them with bases suitable as vehicles for presenting 
them to the public, whom they reach under the other names by which they are 
familiar to the World at large. 
It thus appears that this industry may be entered on by the small land- 
owner at an expenditure of capital such as would be within the means of almost 
any farmer or settler. It would demand no technical knowledge, except that 
within easy reach of any who choose to seek after it; and no degree of skill 
that could not be acquired by persons of fair intelligence and of ordinary 
handiness. Its successful establishment will, however, demand co-operation to 
secure a suitable market and a sufficient price for its products. Will the rural 
population deem it worth while to add the cultivation of perfume-producing 
plants to their already established sources of income ? 
: THE LAVENDER PLANT. 
The cultivation of perfume plants is extremely simple, but so numerous are 
the inquiries for information concerning their growth and after treatment, that 
a brief description of a few of them may be useful to those who contemplate 
entering into their production and manipulation. 
LAVANDULA AUGUSTIFOLIA, OR VERA. 
This is perhaps the most popular of all perfume plants. Baron yon Mueller 
describes it as the principal lavender plant, and it is the one employed in 
producing the superior well-known English oil of lavender. 
The lavender plant is so well known that it is unnecessary to enter into a 
lengthy description of it; but, as there are various species, it may be well 
to mention briefly the merits of each. 
The illustration, which is taken from a standard work—kindly supplied by 
Baron von Mueller—gives the true character of the plant. As compared with 
Lavender latifolia or Spica, the foliage is small, and the flowers more distri- 
buted on the long slender stems. The habits of this family of plants resemble 
each other in most respects; but, as far as value of oil is conccrned, the Vera 
is much superior to all others, and should be chosen where it is intended to 
enter into Javender cultivation. 
