Kesanlik, the centre of the district in which General G-ourko
has been operating, is the centre also of the great rose-field of Turkey, from which most of the " atta of rose " used in Europe is ob- tained. That used in Asia comes principally, we believe, from Ghazeepore. About 220 imperial gallons of rose-oil are pro- duced at Kesanlik every year ; the roses are cultivated in fields, not .gardens, and the entire valley is scented by the leaves. It is supposed that the industry, which yields about £80,000 a year, has been destroyed by the war, and will be transferred to some other spot, perhaps to Sicily, where the rose could be cultivated as easily as on the slopes of the Balkans. The chance would be an excellent one, for any one who owned, say, a bit of a 'Greek island ; but we suppose India will supply the deficiency, with its less powerful article, as it would if all Turkish poppies were ploughed up. India can supply all deficiencies, be they in cotton, wheat, hemp, opium, or rose-oil—but there is always some faint inferiority about the new supply, the only exception we .remember being tea.
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