Show I 1 where C costliest Cost liest 1 Is made I 1 bulgaria homo coffle of attar of at boses f Is suffering from shortage of crop washing M roses hoses oro are not doing so yell well in III bulgaria this year this is not tho casual statement that it may appear it ani amounts to a groat grat deal more than a statement for exam plo pie that Cali fornias poppies are suf silt fering that tho the bluebonnet blue bonnet bonnot crop Is not up to tho the ird in texas or that tho the daisies in maryland are scarcer than usual A bulletin by national geographic s cietus socie tys here bore 4 tells why roses are ara not merely things of beauty in bulgaria says saya tho the bulletin they constitute a real crop and mean as much to somei parts of tho the country 00 cotton means in georgia or potatoes in maine airline it Is in literally true that the rose means bread and butter to thousands of bulgarian country folk great fields of roses tire aro grown that tho the petals may bo be made to yield each its infinitesimal share of attar of roses thelast the last word and tho the roost most expensive in perfumery if is 18 in n tile the valleys on tho the southern 4 slopes elopes of the that roses have been grown for generations for the perfumery industry for there tho the ell cli nato mate soll boll and drainage tire aro just right in n nomal seasons for this roost most exact ing flower before the world war there were wera probably between and acres of roso gardens in the bulgarian rose road belt rind and the annual yield of 0 tho attar bitar was about ounces but perfume was not greatly in n demand in the german and turkish world to which bulgarian Bulga rias exports were confined during war time and roses rosea gave way to the tobacco plant whose particular fragrance was more ampre dated by the millions of men under firms since the war roso growing has recovered but in no postwar year has bus tho the acreage climbed above most moat concentrated product attar of roses la is ono one of tile the roost most lt concentrated agricultural pro products duNs if it may bo be so called caged produced anywhere in the world the countless rose roae petals 1 grown on an aero acre yield only a tow few tablespoonfuls ble spoonfuls of tho fragrant oil the attar bottor Is in effect tho the materialized anit and captured fragrance of ilia hie rose roae and probably or mora flowers must contribute their share la in malting making each ounce of tho the completed product the roses are largely gathered be fore sunrise or at least befaro the dew has dried for the moisture helps to preserve the fragrance the peasants seem beem to enjoy their nest aesthetic hetle job troops of gaily dressed farl a and young men go through the gardens stripping the buds from the plants planta they are dumped in plies before boford older women who sort them in for their trip to tho the nearby factories factor legs the buds are placed in retorts with about twice their weight of writer water and the liquid Is then distilled the resulting liquor in allowed to stand overnight in pans by morning a thin film of a solid oil lias has risen to tho the top this tho the attar Is 18 carefully skimmed off and the retraining remaining rose water la Is in most cases thrown away tho the genuine attar of roses rosea to Is so strong that its odor la Is not very plead i ant when combined with other tonte mati rials rind nod so BO properly the fragrance la Is delightful ono one drop Is sufficient to give a pleasing rose odor to a gallon of cologne has hao reached an ounce in 1010 the united states imported of attar of over a thousand pounds roses rosea from bulgaria its cost there chete was only about a pound the price of the attar Is much greater of i course urse by the time it reaches the conco con the beati grades have halo sold at times for or more an ounce though bulgaria Is in perhaps the oe best beat known source of attar of roses it has no mo noply of tho the production of this most highly prized of perfumes eu in tho the celebrated volo of kashmir in somo some parts of china in borau of tho of persia in egypt ond and in asiatic turkey the flowers from many acres of roses are concentrated in much tho the some same way the industry has even invaded the west and tin d Is carried carrie d on doear leipzig germany rind and around tho the city of perfumes grosse grasse in ih if thern france |