Curiosities of toil and other papers / by Dr. Wynter.

  • Andrew Wynter
Date:
1870
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Credit: Curiosities of toil and other papers / by Dr. Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    collodion-prepared plates, the most delicate pictures are retained. In this way the jessamine, the violet, the tuberose, and orange perfumes travel across France, and arrive here as pure as the day they were given forth from the flowers themselves. The emancipation of the odour from its imprisonment is very simple : the fat cut into small cubes is placed in spirits of wine, and the delicate essence immediately deserts the coarse fat for the more spiritual solvent. It may not be quite correct to speak of these odours as waste matters, because the flowers are grown for the purpose of their produc- tion, and for that only, but there are many fragrant airs which now go to waste in our gardens that may be secured with a little trouble. Mr. Piesse, in his interesting work on perfumery, says that, whilst cul- tivators of gardens spend thousands for the gratification of the eye, they altogether neglect the nose. Why should we not grow flowers for their odours as well as for their colours ? and we may add that ladies may utilise some of our own waste garden perfumes very easily, and with pecuniary advantage to themselves. Heliotrope, the lily of the valley, honeysuckle, myrtle, clove pink, and wallflower perfumes, such as we get in the shops, are made-up odours cunningly contrived from other flowers. Yet they may be made pure with a little trouble. I want heliotrope pomade, says Mr Piesse in despair ; I would buy any amount that I could get. And the way to get it is very sample. If there is a glue-pot in the house, and it happens to be clean, fill it with clarified fat, set it near the hot-
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