Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-07-15 | Page 23 | Bulgaria Hurt by Failure of Rose Harvest

BULGARIA mm HURT BY FAILURE Of ROSE HARVEST Perfume Industry Among Most Important in Nation I I I SOFIA sorIA July It 14 14 It Is I that the tho rose rOle harvest which harvest which has continued Into July will show a shortage of rose blooms and con con- consequently con consequently al of rose roso oil or attar ot of I otI roses because of ot weather condi condl- condItions conditions in April and May As the therose therose rose oil Industry aside from the tho growing of wheat and corn Is la the I most Important productive resource of Bulgaria the slump In the rose roso harvest Is regarded here as disastrous disastrous trous In April during a cold snap the frosts nipped a 0 considerable nurn- nurn number num number ber of the buds In May the In- In Intense intense In Intense tense heat forced the blooms to such an art extent that they could not DOt be utilized ed successfully for distill distill- distillIng distilling distilling ing purposes m KED D ROSES HOSES BEST The Tho picking is done mostly by women and girls In their variegated ed national costumes Hundreds dg ot of o them may be bo seen acen delivering their theirs Ithem of flowers to the tho greatest rose oil establishment In Bulgaria In the tho little village of In the thc valley alley of the Stroma The manufacturer prefers the red or damask roses to the white or musk mus because it II possesses about double the strength of the white The roses are arc heaped up In sep sep- separate sep separate arate arto piles plies In concrete lined store store- storerooms storerooms storerooms rooms to prevent the exhalation of the blooms From the storerooms In tn which the flowers must not remain more than a 11 couple of das davs because they base hae a tendency to turn sour the tho roses are aro piled plied Into the large metal retorts v where here the essence Is dis- dis distilled dis distilled tilled from them ALIVE U WITH ITJI TROUT I themI The Tho product of the tho distillation Is 11 conducted Into metal cans where the costly essence rises to the top the fragrant rose water Is Ie discharged through a pipe into the I nearby mountain stream where the trout do not seem to mind it for tho stream is alive with themon them ou- ou on