The factory itself, standing in de-Jhtful grounds, has the appeartance of @ charming private villa. Visitors from the Riviera are always given a courteous welcome there, and are shown each fascinating process of distillation and ox-fraction, of which there are three distinct" methods, Of these the most recent, the most complicated and costly, but also the most effective, is by volatile solutions. Into great copper vats fare placed about half a ton of flowers packed in baskets, carefully) piled one upon another so as not to crush the flowers, The vats a then hermetically sealed and a cer tain quantity of purified ther lof petroleum is forced within. The flowers are thus infused in the ether, which, in turn, absorbs the perfume. When this' is complete the ether is drawn off into stills bnoath the vats and evaporated, by distillation, into a special apparatus for its reception, where it is stored for future use, Meanwhile the vegetable wax from the flowers, which contains all the perfume, mains at the bottom of the The scent is then extracted by process of infusion of pure spirit, followed by evaporation.
Another process extracts the scent. by distillation at very high temperature, Of the three processes the following generally proves the most fascinating to visitors." On to each side of a large plate of felass, fixed in a wooden frame, is spread about five ounces of a pomade of thoroughly purified, fodourless animal fat. The wooden frame allows these' plates to be piled up on top of each other with-Jout the layers of fut touching one another. Freshly picked flowers are spread upon the pomade of the upper surface of glass, so that when the frames are piled upon one ai other the flowers lie between two layers of pomade, the lower surface of the plate above forming a lint of tid to the plate below. The flowers are renewed about every 48 hours, until the pomade is completely saturated, "In the cas. of the jasmine this takes about two months. The pomade is then taken out of the frames [great vats, where it is mixed with pure spirit which absorbs the per-fame. The spirit is then drawn of, frozen, filtered to get rid of all and finally evaporate Manchester Gusrdian. highheeied ties! George Hargraves stockings and ana
in "N. Y. Times'
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