ACRES OF. PERFUME.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 222, 17 September 1881, Page 1

ACRES OF. PERFUME.

ide!Tt* he;X5 ° Sf t on raisir ' ue magnitude of the busings bf isweet scented lowers, for their alone, may be gathered from the fact that Europe and British India alone consume about 150,000 gallons of handkerchief perfume yearly ; that the English revenue ,from French eau de cologne of itself is Jeßooo:ahnualiy, and the total revenue of England from other ed P er ? Ulfie S is estimated at £.40,000 each yean there is one great perfume distillery at Cannes in France which uses nearly 100,000 poiirds of acacia flowers, 140,000 pounds of rare flower leaves, 32,000 pounds df jasmine blossoms, and 20,000 pounds of tuberoke blossoms, with an immense quantity of other material used for perfumed Victoria and New South Wales are noted places for the production of perfumeyielding plants, because such plants as the migonette, sweet verbena, jasmine, rose, lavender, acacia, heliotrope, rosemary, wall-flower, laurel, orange, and the sweet-scented geraniums are said to grow there in greater perfection than in any other place in the world. South Australia, it is believed, would also be a good place for the growing of these perfume-producing plants, though thoy are not cultivated there, to much extent. The value of perfumes to countries adapted to their production, may be gathered from the (following estimate of their growth and value per acre, as given in the Londor* Journal of Horticulture :— Au acre of jasmine plants, 80,000 in number, will produce 5,000 pounds f of flowers, valued at £250 ; an acre of rose trees, 10,000 in number, will yield 2,000 pounds of flowers, worth £65 ; 100 orange trees growing on an acre will yield, at ten years of age, 2,000 pounds of flowers, valued at £50 '; an acre of violets producing 16,000 pounds of flowers, worth £160; an acre of cassia trees of about 300 will, at three years of age, yiejd 900 pounds of flowers, worth £90 • and an acre of geranium plants will yield someting over 2,000 ounces distilled otto, worth £80 ; an acre of lavender, giving only 3,6(J0 flowers for distillation, will yield ia value of £^'00.