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Show Bulgaria Land of Roses. If one visits the rose fields of Bui- r garia in the early hours of a June ' morning he will find the peasant folk busy gathering roses. Everyone who can goes to t he fields to pick roses. The picturesque costumes amid the j blooms of roses look very beautiful to- ! one standing on a hilltop overlooking j the sea of (lowers. I The roses are gathered while the j dew is still fresh upon them, because j the roses yield more attar if gathered (before the heat of the sun dries out i tile leaves. As the baskets are filled with open and half-open buds and blossoms they are taken to the distillery distil-lery nearby, where the attar is distilled. |