Middletown transcript., 1886-03-19

children laughing, made him soon per-
ceive that they were the street boys,
and that the gems were only the
pebbles of that country. In Sicily
the crimson grenade and rose trees,
the peach-colored rhododendrons, and
the delicate white camellias form the
country hedges. The white and green
myrtles, and pink, white and fame
shaped and fame-colored tulips grow
wild. When a pleasure garden is
made, the orange and lemon trees are
taken out, because they are too com.
mon. Alphonse Karr was much sur
| prised to notice that the ladies Of Nice
never decorated themselves with real
flowers, but seemed to dislike them.
He thought this all the more strange
in country where it is no longer
neurological fattery to say that
flowers spring from the footprints.
The roses, violets, jasmine and migno-
nette are cultivated by the peasants
only for perfumery purposes, and
hOnored but as we honor potatoes or
cabbages.
We are now wholly dependent for
our finest perfumes on France, SO that
when flower crop fails, as the jas
mine and rose sometimes do, the
manufacturers are put to serious in
convenience. It is, therefore, the
interest Of perfumes to promote the
production of these flowers in other
countries. and the. high price they
fetch in the market would make it a
very profitable speculation. Great
praise is due to the pioneers of flower
farming in the British colonies Of
South Africa and Australia, and es-
pecialIy to Col. Talbot in Jamaica,
whose efforts in this direction bid fair
to meet with complete success. The
cultivation of flowers on a large scale
for perfalnery purposes in this country
would perhaps be impracticable. For
American flowers, however beautiful
Q. q
i'm form or color. do not possess the in
tensity of odor required for ex-
Traction and the greater part of
those used in the South Of France for
lperfumery purposes would grow here
only in hothouses. The one flower
which might be had in abundance
would be the rose; but the smell of
it is very faint compared with that of
the Southern rose. The shortness of
the lowering season and the high
price of labor as compared with those
in Europe would be serious disadvan-
tages with which to contend.
Still | know of no reason why we
should not grow flowers for their oders
as well as for their colors. There are
scores Of flowers in our gardens that
would yield admirable extracts with
p little pains. For instance, there is
the heliotrope, the rose, ily-ofthe-
valley, honeysuckle. myrtle, Glove
pink, and wallfower. We have extracts
from all these flowers in the per-
fumers' shops, but they are nothing
but skillful combinations Of other
scents. Every lady, if she wishes, can
be her own perfumer and it affords
delight recreation even if one does not
care to earn little pin-money by it.
Some of The Ca5iaet readers may like
10 try the experiment for themselves;
and we therefore give them the benefit
Of a recipe which we found very good:
At the season when the flowers are
il bloom, obtain one pound of fine
lard $ melt it and strain through
close ,hair-sieye, letting it drop
through into cold spring water. This
operation granulates and washes the
blood and membrane from it. In
order to start with perfectly inodor-
Gus oil, the process may be repeated
three or four times, using pinch of
salt and a pinch OF alum in each
water. Finally wash it several times
mclean water; remit it and put the
clarified fat into glue-pot and place
it into such position near the fire of
the greenhouse or elsewhere that will
keep it warm enough to be liquid
into the fat throw as many flowers as
you can, and there let them remain
twenty.four hours; at this time strain
the fat from the spent flowers and
add fresh ones; repeat this operation
for week. We expect at the last
straining the fat will have become
very highly perfumed, and when cold,
may be justly termed ponaade a Ia helio-
tropc. To turn this pomade INTO an
extract fit for the handkerchief, all
that has to be done is to cut the per-
fumed fat into small pieces, drop it
into a wide-mouthed bottle and cover
it with highly-iectified spirits, in
which it must remain for week.
When strained off the process will be
completed. CLINTON MoNTAGuE, in
Ladies' Floral Cabinet.
EXCITEMENT IN As.-Great ex-