Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-06

and altitude suit, it refuses to breathe
forth its usual fragrance. Fine grades
or the plants are grown in the Drome
region. France, at an altitude of $500
feet, while the flowers generally consid-
cred to have the most agreeable fra
GRANGE come from the Mitcham district
of England. where the conditions of soil
and altitude are decidedly different from
those in France
The rose geranium. which has such
an exquisite odor, is also grown and
distilled in France, but Spain, Algiers
and the Island of Reunion engaged in the
INDUSTRY. Unlike the lavender. however.
the perfume of the rose geranium comes
from its leaves and not from the
flowers.
Rose Vies With Tobacco.
But the country that might well be
known by it's scent is Bulgaria. for
it's rose crop is second only to it's to-
bacco. Over 1880 acres of land in
the provinces of Philippopolis and
Stara Zagora are given over to the
growth of roses, from the petals of
which altar of roses is distilled In
the wonderful gardens at Kazanlik,
karlovo. Klisoura and Stara Zagora
the best OF the flowers are grown.
me nelds are arranged much after
the fashion of the vineyards of
france and Italy, and the half-open.
dew.laden buds. which have very few
petals, are shipped off by diligent
girls, boys and women in the early
mornings of May and June.
About four thousand pounds Of
roses are produced on an acre of land
put It takes about two hundred
pounds of petals to produce an ounce
or Oil. for an altar. which before the
war cost about $3.50 pound.
Roses are grown in other parts of
the Balkans. as well as in Asiatic
tL 1 where they were introduced
Dy Ahmed Vefik, the noted Turkish
statesman and man of letters, in the
latter half of the nineteenth century.
ana IN India, Persia, the Fayum prov
ince in Egypt and in France. The
INDUSTRY lately has been introduced
into Germany.
b M ny Of the countries of Europe
nave ma Tor centuries successfully distilled
OIL from such seeds as earaway, anise
ana Kennel for f1avoring and seeming
purposes. and the citrus fruits of Italy
ana Sicily yield quantities of valua BILE
OIL. In fact, so fragrant are the flowers
and shrubs of some of the islands of the
tMed1terranean that they are called the
spice Islands Of Europe as the MoIucca
archipelago in the Dutch East Indies
re known as the Spice Islands on ac-
punt or the nutmegs. mace and cloves
mat they produce. Napoleon said that
ne would know his native land, Corsica.
with his eyes shut by the odor of the
White-howered cistus.
Frankincense Derived From Gum.
Frankincense. which is one of the
chief aromatic constituents of the in
sense burned in churches, is the gum
resin OF tree found in East Africa,
Arabia. and on the Island of Socotra, in
the Indian ocean.
Ladies and gentlemen in the time of
Napoleon used the tonquin bean, a ma
boxes
THE animal perfumes are extremely
limited in number. Ambergris is Sc
GREETED by the sperm whale, civit by the
animal of the same name and musk by
he muskox. the muskrat and the musk
deer. which is found in the high Hima-
layas, Tibet and eastern Siberia. About
1000 ounces of musk. usually in the
grain form. are annually imported to
the United States from China and In
dia. Musk has one peculiar and almost
inexplicable characteristic One grain
Of It kept freely exposed to the air of a
wen ventilated room will impregnate
the atmosphere for ten years without
sensibly diminishing in weight"
About one-half of all the diamonds
in, hn o~1l