The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-17

many the schools are closed during the
season of the rose picking, and the child
rem, with their mothers, devote themselves
to the work, receiving nominal sum for
their labors. There is no work done in the
middle of the day, the picking being done
in the early morning and in the evening
when the roses will not deterioratc so
quickly.
An enormous quantity Of roses is required
to make small quantity of oil: $500 kilos,
one man in the business says, will yield one
kilo of OIL or, as another says, 6,60o pounds
of roses will make 90 pounds of oil, and TO
produce those $500 pounds of roses 1T re-
qulreS an area OF z Al acres OF rose plants.
The price of altar of roses varies according
to the crops. woman going TO a phar-
macy in New York recently paid 10 cents
for two drops of rose oil. That may or may
not have been adulterated. Reliable deal
ers often find ii difficult to obtain the pure
article, and 1t may not be considered adul-
The wholesale price will vary from s6 to 50
an ounce. Though Moore says the Altar
Gull is more precious than gold. 1t is by no
means the most precious of perfumes, for
musk is sold at s25 and $50 an ounce.
The process of distillation is always SIM
pie. The flowers are distilled with double
their weight of water Part of this is drawn
off; the operation is repeated several times.
The result of the several Installations being
combined and distilled again and the liquid
drawn from the last distillation is allowed
to stand for a day or two. when the oil Is
skinned off. The water scented by this
process Is the rose water familiar as a toilet
article. rose p0made Wnicn Is largely
used for perfumes is made by covering the
rose leaves with purified lard or marrow.
which absorbs the odor quickly. Then Ii Is
separated from the leaves and placed in
acknowledgements cans. where Ii will re-
main sweet for twenty years or more. For
use it is combined with frozen spirits Of
cologne, when 1t is known as rose pomade.
The pomade is used largely for perfumes
and the Oil for fiavorings. 1t fiavors the
rose confectionery and is found in denti-
frice sachets and more practical articles
of merchandise.
The greatest amount of rose oil, according
to the statistics of a few years ago, comes
to France and America. Those two coun-
tries are grouped together in the statistics
and received one year 1.564 kilos. Constan-
tinople is next at AS kilos. England and
Germany following with 466 and 425 kilos,
respectively. Italy took the least only three
kilos in the year. The Turkish govern
ment favorng the manufacture. has grant
and internal revenue for several years.
The altar Of roses is put up for export IN
different ways. Queer copper containers.
tin lined. shaped something like canteen
and in different sizes, holding ten. twenty.
or eighty ounces, are used somewhat. The
cans are covered with parchment-like mate
rial and carefully sealed In more attract
i've form IL comes in large glass bottles,
the size and shape of the bottles that fig
ured IN what was known at one time as a
gilt design very much like those or the
familiar little altar of rose bottles OF past
history.
There is one great trouble with altar of
roses, and this may have had something 10
do with the loss Of popularity of the little
straight bottles that the grandmothers
loved IL Is easy 10 add 10 IL other and
cheaper flowers than the beautiful Rosa
Damascena of the days of Lalla Rookh.
and while the price is less the perfume is
less also. 1t is difficult to find the pure ar
tice.