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Show Rose Culture In Bulgaria. White and red roses are grown, the former being easier to cultivate, but giving only about half as much oil of an inferior quality. The Individual growers distil their own oil. Twelve to fifteen kilos of roses are distilled with fiO kilos of water until 12 kilos of distillate are obtained; eight to ten such lots are then united, and redistilled into long necked flasks, in which the oil separates on standing. To produce one kilo of oil requires 3,00o kilos of roses of 1,200,000 flowers. flow-ers. Tho roses are gathered in the early morning and distilled the same day. The pure oil from the various districts shows variations in odor and physical properties, nnd is therefore skillfully blended by the distributing houses before snle. Adulteration is very largely carried on by the peasants, peas-ants, who use ginger grass oil, palm a rosa oil, geranium oil, etc. The production pro-duction for 1910 wns 3.14S kilos The Pharmaceutical Era. |