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Harm. Lawsonia inermis. 
Fitna. 
Amber. Ambergris. 
Chukhi bakä. 
Seonti. 
Badshä pasand. Mimusops elengi. 
4.839. Mataghasa—a kind of~ 
potpourri, Mandee. 
4.840. Mataghassa oil— Hair 
oil for Bengali ladies. 
4,141. Mataghassa, Essence of, J 
for Bengali ladies. J 
Perfumes extracted 
from various 
plants. 
3,442. 18 Specimens of Attars. Exhibited by the 
Local Committee, Amritsar. 
A Collection of Attars or Essential Oils from Madras. 
Exhibited by Mir Goolab Futhoolah. 
2.151. Mooteeyah Atur. 
2.152. Munsuntoo Atur. 
2.153. Heena Atur. 
2.154. Goolabee Atur. 
2.155. Ughur Atur. 
2.156. Umber Atur. 
2.157. Sandal Atur. 
2.158. Kavoora Atur. 
2.159. Moolsaree Atur. 
2.160. Soohangh Atur. 
2.161. Randa (scent). 
2.162. Cheeksa (scent). 
2.163. Burmakee, smoke of this used to the hair of 
the head. 
2.164. Sandal Buddee (scent). 
2.165. Phoola ka Thayl (oil of flower, of Moorgra, 
or Mullipoo). 
2.166. Oodbuthee, or perfume sticks. 
2.167. Rooghum-i, oil of rose. 
2.168. Two Moohnalls of Sandal (fixed to the pipe 
of hooka). 
Three Specimens of Fragrant Oils. Exhibited by 
Baloo Moodelliar, Madras. 
2.169. Essential Oil of Orange. 
2.170. Essential Oil of Pompeimose. 
2.171. Sandal oil. 
A Collection of Attars, &c., exhibited by Dr. Kanny 
Loli Dey, Calcutta. 
4.813. Batavi-neboo-atar. Citrus rumphii. 
4.814. Bela-atar. Jasminum sambac. 
4.815. Bakul-atar. Mimusops elengi. 
4.816. Chameli-atar. Jasminum grandiflorum. 
4,817- Champa-atar. Miehelia champaca. 
4.818. Chandan-atar. Santalum album. 
4.819. Uona-atar. Artemisia indica. 
4.820. Ganda-atar. Marigold. 
4.821. Golab-atar. Rosa damascena. 
4.822. Grass oil. Andropogon iwarancusa. 
4.823. Hena-atar. Lawsonia inermis. 
4.824. Jäfran-atar (Kesar). Crocus sativus. 
4.825. Jui-atar. Jasminum. 
4.826. Kewra-atar. Pandanus odoratissimus. 
4.827. Khuskhus-atar. Andropogon muricatum. 
4.828. Kurna-ka-atar. Phoenix dactylifera. 
4.829. Lemon grass oil (Ceylon). Andropogon 
schoenanthus. 
4.830. Moti-atar. Jasminum hirsutum. 
4.831. Matti-atar. 
4.832. Masala-atar. 
4.833. Musk-atar. 
4.834. Nagkesor-atar. Mesua ferrea. 
4,335. Pachapat-atar. Pogostemon patchouli. 
4.836. Sassiferus-ka-atar. Camphora glandulifera. 
4.837. Sohag-atar. 
4.838. Sasa-atar- Cucumis sativus. 
A Collection of Attars and Perfumed Water, exhi 
bited by Goolab Gandhee, of Ghazeepore. 
3,906-7. Attar of roses. Ist quality. 
3,908-9. Attar of roses. 2nd quality. 
3,910-11. Attar ofkhus. 
3,912-15. Rose water. 
3,916-19. Khus water. 
With these samples the following memorandum 
has been forwarded. 
The roses from which the celebrated Ghazeepore 
rose-water is distilled came originally from Bussorah. 
These roses were first transplanted from Persia, and 
brought to the ancient, but now ruinous, Hindu 
city of Kanauj on the Ganges, and thence to Gha 
zeepore. 
Somewhere about a centuiy ago, Shaikh Abdullah 
(the father of the last Nawab Fuzl Alee Khan) made 
the first trial of a rose plantation in the vicinity of 
the city of Ghazeepore. Having experimented on a 
very limited scale in his qwn garden, he discovered 
that the soil of the environs of Ghazeepore was 
admirably adapted for rose cultivation, and since 
that period it has by degrees been extended. 
The celebrity of the Ghazeepore perfumes prepared 
from these roses very soon spread throughout India, 
and to other countries, while to this däy they have 
been held in the highest possible esteem on account 
of the permanenee of the odour, and the peculiar 
delicate fragrance of the scent for which they are 
specially appreciated in the mercantile world. Year 
after year traders come from immense distances to 
work temporary distilleries, for the season only, in 
order to replenish their stock of these delicious and 
precious rose scents. 
Culture of the Roses, and plantation of Rose 
Gardens. 
Unlike the propagation of the Specimen-roses of 
England, which depend chiefly on grafting, these rose 
trees are raised from euttings which are planted out 
from nurseries after one year’s growth at an expense 
of Rs. 25 per beegah. These slips are watered every 
five or six days tili the setting in of the rains, and 
when once they have taken root, they are fi’nally 
transplanted to the field intended for the rose garden 
Here each rose tree is planted three feet apart from 
the other, and on an average 1,000 shrubs are 
allowed to grow in each beegah of land. 
Rose fields are kept scrupulously clean by constant 
weeding, and loosening of the soil round the roots. 
This Operation takes place about three times a year 
Leaf-mould, which is the best sort of manure for 
roses, is sprmkled all over the fields once a year, 
and twice a year the fields are irrigated by flooding 
them with well water. Priming takes place annually 
in the month of January. The flowering season is 
in February and March, when the blossoms are 
picked and collected each day before sunrise. 
The average yield of flowers per beegah is from 
30 to 60,000. These are sold to the distillers at 
a rate varying from 100 to 125 rupees per lakh