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THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 133
special notice • they are the a/fa, the diss and the dwarf palm.
Alfa is the tough grass which covers the dusty plains of
Spain, and is called there esparto; it serves to make sandals,
mats, sacks, &c, and can also be turned into paper pulp. Diss
is generally used for the same purposes, but in barren locali-
ties it is given as fodder to cattle. From the dwarf palm they
extract those filaments known under the name of vegetable
hair.
Algeria, already famous in the time of the Romans for its
crops, produces a large quantity of corn, besides rye, barley,
oats, rice, maize, and a sort of millet named dour a by_the
Arabs. A Chinese plant called sorgho, has lately been intro-
duced and yields an excellent alcohol, the residue of which
serves as food for cattle. '
The climate of this country is particularly favourable to
aromatics, and flowers and plants are largely grown there for
perfumery purposes. Mr. Simonnet, a chemist at Algiers,
was one of the first to distil an Essential Oil from Rose Ger-
anium {Geranium capitatum) which grows wild in great
abundance. This essence forms still the chief one among
the perfumery materials, but others are also extracted from
rose, orange, jasmine and cassie [Acacia farnesiana), although
is must be acknowledged they do not equal in fineness those
made at Grasse or Nice.
Coral is found on the Algerian coasts, near Oran, whence
it is brought to Italy and carved and shaped into a thousand
different graceful forms.
The tobacco trade is a very flourishing one in Algeria,
principally owing to the perfect liberty which it enjoys. Every
special notice • they are the a/fa, the diss and the dwarf palm.
Alfa is the tough grass which covers the dusty plains of
Spain, and is called there esparto; it serves to make sandals,
mats, sacks, &c, and can also be turned into paper pulp. Diss
is generally used for the same purposes, but in barren locali-
ties it is given as fodder to cattle. From the dwarf palm they
extract those filaments known under the name of vegetable
hair.
Algeria, already famous in the time of the Romans for its
crops, produces a large quantity of corn, besides rye, barley,
oats, rice, maize, and a sort of millet named dour a by_the
Arabs. A Chinese plant called sorgho, has lately been intro-
duced and yields an excellent alcohol, the residue of which
serves as food for cattle. '
The climate of this country is particularly favourable to
aromatics, and flowers and plants are largely grown there for
perfumery purposes. Mr. Simonnet, a chemist at Algiers,
was one of the first to distil an Essential Oil from Rose Ger-
anium {Geranium capitatum) which grows wild in great
abundance. This essence forms still the chief one among
the perfumery materials, but others are also extracted from
rose, orange, jasmine and cassie [Acacia farnesiana), although
is must be acknowledged they do not equal in fineness those
made at Grasse or Nice.
Coral is found on the Algerian coasts, near Oran, whence
it is brought to Italy and carved and shaped into a thousand
different graceful forms.
The tobacco trade is a very flourishing one in Algeria,
principally owing to the perfect liberty which it enjoys. Every